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.
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A beautiful, genuinely moving portrait, tremendous focus, detail, lighting, contrasts and that eye! Well done.