Nice job - disturbing, to be sure - but, I imagine that this was the point? Thanks for submitting.

Great photo--certainly out of the Metallica "Unforgiven" genre--I like it very much.

Thank you all!, and the point it wanst only take a "disturbing" image but also see the tranformation of a normal imagewhen using only a strong light. Thank y6ou again!.

Very disturbing...
but I post a comment... so

thank you everybody for your comments, but ludimaginary I think you shuould read the part where they say: when posting a coment: dont be an ass, I know you can comment, but dont comment just to get credits so you can get people to comment on your photos and feed your ego!. and im saying this becouse your commet appear to me very but very rude!. i dont mind criticism but you can do it in a nice manner. i know you can do it!!!

I think I would have cropped this one horizontally to eliminate some of the pole and sand. The photo is really about the danger of the water and such a crop accentuates the subject IMHO.

i do agree with aloha photo, in certain way. yes i think there isa bit too much land in the picture, but even though i have a DSLR camera i personaly dont like to manipulate my photos in any way after i take them,so! my humble advice to you is try to compose the picture when yo are shooting it thats all! easier than have to deal with adding efects cut paste and all that. but if you like the way the picture is and you like photoshop thats very fine too!!

I like it! Very well composed. I wouldn't have thought of the cropping, but given their advice, you might try cropping into square format, it appears it would work quite well at that size.

This one works for me jsut as it is. I think, like Aloha, that this shot is made stronger by a horizontal crop. The comp becomes stronger, but so does the story which is being told.

Nice Shot!

like the color fusion between the sign and the sky!
The only one who disturb the picture --- in my eyes --- is the beachvolleything in the background.
But well done!

Another wonderful subject expertly captured and presented. I like lots about the image, but particularly the shadows on the building from the surrounding bush and the reflection of the door in the water. Am surprised to see no mountain goats in shot, the look of the terrain suggests they might be close by ;-0 ...

I like this shot a lot. Great muted colors and interesting composition. I love how the eye is led upwards and then rests on the reds of the photo in the upper portion. I think the goats must behind the house!!

Cheers,
Jon

Wow. That's just stunning!!!

i like it, but i think i a bit busy for me, soo many things together may keep you distracted but i think that was the intention! nice!

This is just gorgeous!!!! The colours are beautiful and the clarity in the water droplets is actually making me thirsty.

I have 2 thoughts, but they can absolutely be ignored. Firstly, i wonder of the photo might benefit from a bit of a contrast or highlight boost, something to make the tones really jump out as at the moment, it appears the saturation across all the colours is even. I'm not sure what i'm trying to express, something a tiny bit different to make the picture really... lusicious! Maybe it's the shadows are a little dark... I'm not sure... someone else help me out here. :)

Secondly, you might try cropping a bit off the left to move the highlighted leaf more to the third?

Gorgeous photo though... :)

Great shot - for me, there is just enough contrast for this shot to work. This is really beautiful. Btw, thanks for pointing out the yellow cast on one of my shots - I'm going to resubmit it soon. Jon

The little cropping on the left is a suggestion that's worth to be tried. I love the tones and the atmosphere.

oh my g*d!!!!

My jaw is still dropped.

This is a terrific abstract.

I love it a lot ! Well done !

This is gorgeous. The colours are stunning. Nice capture.

Very nice

@Tammy, sorta is, it's only 2 exposures. I was shooting hand held with a 3 exposure bracket program, the third exposure was really shaky and blurred. I use Photomatix Pro for HDR generation and tone mapping, just got it a couple of weeks ago. It works to my taste @50% of the time. They brag that you can use it with hand held stuff. In reality, just barely. If you only have lateral and/or vertical shifts between the exposures it works well, but if you have tilt more than a tiny bit, it won't work. Best to use a tripod and no wind or object/people movement. Also, the tone mapping takes a lot of trial and error to learn. I only like it when the "HDR" look is subtle. Definitely fun to play with!!

wish i could see snow like that...

That... is... gorgeous! :)

Beamer, I think you and I have the same preference when working with HDR. I really like the subtle use here. I wouldn't have thought you used that technique for this image which shows you did a great job.

For some reason, the tree in the center darkened by the clouds is distracting and I'm wishing you highlighted the sun lit tree on the left more but then you might not have been able to capture the rocks in the lower right that I really like. I'm a little torn about the composition.

I'd like to see this posted under the new topic of 'weather'. So many elements happening here making this very interesting & appealing. Excellent photo or should I say photos? :)

Very nice composition and color.

this is a very nice idea. I like the simplicity.

I love that blue! I think the framing on the bottom is a bit awkward. You might consider either allowing a bit more breathing room on the bottom of the pear, or cropping the image all the way to the bottom of the pear so it appears it's sitting on the frame for a mroe abstract shot.

id like to see a brighter pear

I like the minimalistic approach.I don't mind the crop at all. The lighting is lovely. I assume you meant the pear to be this dark. The shadow effect is nice. Still, I'd like to see a version where the left side of the pear is lighter.

I agree, a perfect pear could have made all the difference. Other than that, the colors are great and the shot is really sharp.

An excellent interpretation of the theme, straight out of a horror movie, so fantastic job on going through the effort of setting up this shot to facilitate an idea.

If i were to suggest anything, I'd say that perhaps the impact of the photo could be strengthened by increasing the contrast of the image.

The highlights already appear to be close to white, but maybe pushing more of the shadows towards black to bring out the terror in the subjects eyes. And I agree that the impact might benefit from rotating the positioning a little counter-clockwise, placing the subject more towards the (implied) submissive lying down position.

Very interesting image. I really like this b&w. Good composition, a well thought out subject, and a great expression of distress.
Nice.

OK that is really just creepy!!!

This is soooo scary, with another angle it's much more creepy I think.

Frightening. this is weird stuff. I hope this subject is alive to see the shot. Wow, what can you say?

I, too, like this shot dcannaday...so I ask that you consider my criticism wiht that in mind. The only thing I can suggest is to really compare your subject matter with the format of presentation and see if they compliment each other. I say this because the sepia is such a wonderful effect for this shot, but there's a garbage dumpster in the upper-right corner. The photo presents a time, an era of our industrial history so well...and then there's this modern element suddenly. The building and pole-elements on the left don't have this same effect of dating a dated-looking photo. One remedy would have been to step back about 15 or 20 feet, allowing you the same perspective while hiding that modern element behind the bush that's also up there. I'm not trying to beat you up, it's a fantastic photo, but it's also a reminder to really study our scenes so that we don't offer up contradictions. Don't hate me! :-)

That stuff did not jump out at me like it does now..Thanks a lot CodeRed! LOL I appreciate your feedback because it is always very useful.. Couldn't hate ya. :)

I love this photo! And I didn't even notice the objects until I read CodeRed's comment. My only thought is I find myself longing for a tiny bit more contrast, particularly in the wood, but I'm a sucker for contrast so it may be too much. I'd defer to someone more experienced.... =)

I want to print it and put it on my wall.

Great composition. Could be just a tad darker, but that is just a personal preference. Almost looks like a tin-type process.

I love train track shots. Very different spin. I like it a lot.