Great portrait. Captured at the right time. Wish the eyes had better light on them though.

Very nice portrait. like the lighting and the contrasted colours. The background is a tad too dark to really help the subject to stand out though.

Haha, I work in Amsterdam and I can assure you he will not be the last smoker, wether it's a normal cigarette or weed.

I disagree with Apurva becouse imo the dark eyes gives the man character. I have more troubles with those two large white spots on the man's right side.
I like the moment you have chosen, he keeps his lower jaw slightly a bit more forward.

Great street shot, love the way he looks at the cigarette. The color really makes it :)

nice, i love the expression on his face, like a true connoisseur of the cigarette. :)

I agree with all of the above. I really like the vignette effect. Not easy to do on a Zone 5 or 6 sky without lots of clouds. Quiet inspiration.

Very Cool. I'm curious as to what a shot would look like if the tree was directly in front of the sun.

Way cool shot, Clyde. Great in every category listed.

great shot!
and amazing silhouette!
the tree almost looks like it belongs in a dr.seuss book
:]

Great silhouette and light. Love your choice of b&w :)

wow very very majestic and inspirational
beautiful composition!!

For me, it has the wow-factor. The sun shining at diffrent please trough a wall of clouds, that's a really nice capture. The whole envirement must have been very inspirational.

Thanks ksenia and Tamara!

Great shot, great catch. What I would change, is the red spots in the foreground. You could make them black too, as they distract me. (Maybe just me)
There's some heavy rain going down here...

This is a great shot, the light is fantastic. I would like to see this in a square format, with the lone bird around the upper-left 1/3rd :)

Very interesting idea.
I agree about adding some other sort of interest into the image, such as a leaf or such.

Sorry! A leaf is a better idea then a leave, indeed.

This is interesting, almost an abstract. I agree that the leaf on the right is a disturbance. Would it be very hard to edit that out? (by cloning some of the grass, perhaps?)
I don't think this needs something extra, if the leaf wasn't there it would have been really interesting by its sheer abstraction.

A little too simplistic. Some point of interest is needed here.

Nicely composed abstract. Very minimalistic. My only critique would be that there is a certain lack of visual contrast or pop if you know what I mean.

Quite a lovely scene, well done.

I agree. Wow!!!

I don't know where to ask this question...so I am asking it on one of my photos...why have there been no more featured photos?

I noticed that, too! It seems there isn't much activity on Vazaar at all. :(

btw, when I was looking to some older photo's I saw this one. I love the unusual crop, good job!

Het is een ruizige foto, en dat is zonde. Om heel eerlijk te zijn ben ik ook niet echt weg van de compositie. Een gebouw als deze biedt wel veel mogelijkheden, blijf hiermee experimenteren.

Dank je voor het commentaar, Tamara. Het gruizige zie ik niet zo, misschien is mijn monitor vergevingsgezinder? De compositie is een kwestie van smaak denk ik. Ik vond de bolling van het gebouw en het schip wel mooi bij elkaar passen. Misschien moet ik links er nog een stukje afsnijden, tot aan de rand van het gebouw.

Hoi Jan Willem,
Ik heb een gloednieuwe mooie monitor, dus de ruis is wel degelijk aanwezig. :)
Als ik ook naar je andere werk kijk, zou ik je in het algemeen als tip willen geven wat minder je foto's te bewerken. Zoek eerder naar goede belichting, mooie composities en naar wat jij en je camera kunnen.
Groetjes!
Tamara

you sure like this scene, don't you?
It fits the topic, but otherwise, it doesn't do much to impress.
The building at the back is tilted, the scene is chopped off and parts of it are over-exposed. I keep wanting to tilt it this way or that.

But like I said. Fits the theme, but maybe because of the selective saturation.

I agree with Ana. The idea is good, but you has to work it out more (starting with changing the brand of the beer, ieuw ;)

Thanks for the comments. I did try and rotate the picture to set the horizon straight. However, to me, this took all the excitement out of it.
I was going for the "rhyme" between the green in the front and in the back.
And don't talk beer brands to me, dear, I rarely ever drink it. (more into wine and whiskey, me)

I took a few looks at this picture before, and I'm sorry to say it: it doesn't appeal to me. Usually, I like these angles and the light coming from different directions is very good, too. Only it looks like somebody had multiple pictures and melted it together... there isn't much connection between the different parts of the whole scene. I can't describe it really, I hope you understand my words a bit.

Unless this IS a montage, it's one of the craziest pieces of architecture I've ever seen. And as such, I very much like it. The different parts of this building don't go together AT ALL, and you captured that very well. Beautiful in its uglyness.
Very well spotted.

i thank you for being completely honest with me sfkp and i can understand your views on the photo. This was actually taken at the San Francisco's new Academy of Sciences where fantastic architecture was found everywhere. I just happened to stumble upon this view as i was walking through the museum and thought that it would be an interesting capture and i really liked that it WAS different, and somewhat out of place. i described it as a mixture of greco-roman and contemporary influence, old meets new, something that was somewhat abnormal.And i can completly understand the hesitance towards the photo and really really appreciate your thoughts on the photo.

i completly agree with you afoklala. the rest of the builiding was just as interesting..especially the roof :] and i thank you for the compliments of the capture

The different building elements are very interesting, but I'm not too keen on the composition. Something seems lacking that I can't put my finger on. Without being there it's hard to say what could be improved. The layered/wavy ceiling grabbed my attention first and I was wanting to see more of it but then I noticed the other elements. Maybe it's the lack of direction but it's hard to distinguish what you are exactly getting at unless you explain it verbally. Maybe a less angled shot down the columns showing the concrete wall in the background with the wavy ceiling above would have helped or if you shot up at one of the columns with the ceiling in the background and the concrete wall to the side, but again it is hard to say without being there.

I too frankly feel there is nothing too great about this!

Java-Borobudur

A whole another look too the topic architecture: usually their are about details of a building or a panoramic view where you can see the building in all its greatness.
However the picture shows hardly any details, it's very recognizable. Well done! Only thing what's bothering me a bit (just a bit nitpicking) are the two poles left from the tree.

Great how you placed the sun directly behind the main structure. The picture looks like a fractal - great effect.
I agree with Tamara that the two poles are in the way, but what could you do? Take a large axe along on your next photo shoot?

In my view too much empty areas and silhoette makes this worse. Not a shot write home about!