Clever title As Elaine says, a little boost in levels would make the scene a bit more punchy as it looks as though it was one of those grey days, but well done on your thinking!
Heat .... Yup that's a lot of heat! Looks like a V1 rocket just landed in your garden.... Could that be a petrol can in somebody's right hand Lighting fires with petrol always saves you shaving I've found. They have already done to death the bit on the left. Fits the theme
Household... Agree with the above crit needs a serious lift, lights very flat. Fits the theme with a slight touch of the shoehorn
Bizarre: This stone dog along the road a little has had various hats on over the years, many of them seasonal (hat with bell at Christmas, Easter bonnet at, well, Easter). This is his current style.
Limit ... I really like this so simple but effective, the strong diagonal always works well and like that DOF play off the vertical plane with that angle! Was that intentional? I mean the top wire is OOF closest to you, but the bottom wire is in focus, nice optical play! Nice work Martin
Bizzare ... Love this, like people with a sense of humour! Nice clean clear shot, spot on focus. Guessing that grey line it the top is a feature of the house or guttering of bungalow? Doesn't detract too much DOF has pretty much sorted it
Yes, with bizarre I was unable to get rid of the line of the house behind, any further cropping in a different direction showed other parts of the house. C'est la vie.
It meets the theme very well, Martin, both the broken wall and the (presumably) broken pipe and also the weeds taking over the steps. But a pretty and colourful scene too, despite the decay.,
Spiral. A picture of two wind thingies in the garden. They have a peculiar property in that the image reflected in the silvering is rotated by 90 degrees. Very strange. If you look at the Flickr image and blow it up you'll see me in the image but rotated 90 degrees to the left. Physics is a strong point for me but this leaves me a little baffled.
I love this spiral, especially with the 2nd one oof in the BG. Just wondering about the wonky frame though (top right). as for the physics, well if you look at the back of a spoon the image is inverted, well in this case the bend in the surface gets bent again so the image is upside down and then bent again by the 2nd curve which makes it 90 degrees. You don't really care about the upside down spoon image do you? lol. well you can google that bit
Summer: I hadn't seen that bit at the top until you mentioned it. I think it I must have caused it when I cropped the image and straightened it afterward, therefore pushing a bit of the picture beyond the relevant boundary. Either that or all our eyes are wonky
Broken - it's a very good choice for the theme, and as you say, it is sad that we're losing so many small post offices
Spiral - wow - I love this, and I think the oof background is a great counterpoint to the main subject - well done
Silhouette: Brilliant - Love the colour, reflection and composition
Entertainment: Nice building - shame only partial though.
Animal: Lovely bit of bronzework - wouldn't mind one myself but bit of a pig to get it home though
Hi Martin, a little catch-up from me as I've missed a couple of weeks.
Spiral - I really like this one! Beautiful colours and reflections, and a super OOF background. A really nice image.
Silhouette - another really lovely image. Beautiful colours and lots of details against the sky.
Entertain - well spotted, showing it pays to look up!
Animal - what a great life-like statue. An unusual take on the theme, too
This one is Medical. I like it but I have no idea why. Is there an implied medical connection between the tumble-dryer outlet and the sign below? Is there some sort of connection between a pharmacy and a domestic appliance? Not a clue.
This one is Pale for obvious reasons. I was actually taking pictures of a nearby heron when I heard someone say "Look, he's eating a fish." Thinking 'this heron is not eating anything' I looked up and saw this Little Egret with a small fish.
Hi Martin. Medical: Maybe the mysterious link is phonetics flue and Looe. I like the colours and comp.
Pale: Definitely fits theme and goodness what a capture - well done.
Medical - The crop widthwise is a bit tight for me but I like the colours and the oddness of the window
Pale - Not so sure where the focus is on this mate, the detail on the sand is great as is some of the feathers, but not the head ?? nice capture with the fish though, did well to get it before it ate that
Great re-shoot of Machinery. It looks like it's been organically grown.
Centre vertical is vertical and plenty of interest in the shot.
The crop at the top looks a little forced to me, presumably to stop something else intruding into the shot?
The crop at the top is because the engine, or whatever it is, was extremely tall and to get the most interesting bits in I had to point the camera up. This unfortunately let a lot of featureless sky appear in the image which I had to crop out. Ideally a stepladder would have got me the best picture but alas they are not easily carried on a motorcycling holiday to Spain!
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