This challenge is now CLOSED. Well, I think we’ve got enough images for rizole Rizole to get his teeth into. Whenever you have the time Rizole, it’s all yours.
The black and white committee has convened, examined the evidence and found no gray areas so with a clearly delineated boundaries we can pronounce thusly:
Lovely landscapes abounded this week.
NickLeon wins the landscape HM's for Tranquility... Social distancing... a field and This morning's walk.
JillyG came in a close second. I particularly liked The night sky. The mainly black overtones and interest in the sky that took me a beat and a squint to figure out what I was looking at.
Good stuff from
terse and
Starzee this week in this category.
Despite the stated clearly delineated boundaries, I'm doing a joint 3rd with two quite different and contrasting pictures
sinnerjohn's
Dinosaurs. I love the clarity, detail, depth and textures in this. The elements lead my eye into the detail and leave it bouncing around the horizon line.
TomHH's
Waterdrops. Circles are a no brainer (see the current appstract thread) but this picture is giving us circular detail at fractal levels. Love the contrasts. There's a loss of details at the outer edges that's quite common (in my experience - probably need a better lens system) with macro lenses but that doesn't significantly detract from the over all composition.
First and second place are so close as to be a photo finish (do you see what I did there?)
2nd place this week goes to
sdimbour for
Lighthouse and
The wave. Both upto her usual high quality, compositional fabulosity and clarity of vision. I particularly liked the wave. The scale and positioning of the elements took me some looking at to figure gound them. It's got structural simplicity with a blend of textural detail and then there's the timing of the shot. Nice.
And our winner this week is.......*drum roll*
terse for Intent.
A beautiful, genuinely moving portrait, tremendous focus, detail, lighting, contrasts and that eye! Well done.