like the idea, I would shoot it from a different angle---but it's just a question of your author attitude:)

I love the strong shapes and the grainy feel to this image, nice work!

A sign in the wilderness.... This is very nice, I might push the contrast/grain and see if it makes it more dramatic. Might be cheating a little, but if it were me, I would try it without the power lines, just to see if the composition holds up..?

I like the picture. The composition, with the lines to give context, is great.

My only question is the topic. I don't have enough elements to begin pondering a story from. It feels more like still life. Very well executed still life.

Good composition, my only dislike is the grain, or grain clusters. Overall it is a nice shot. The cross tied to the telephone pole is very emotive.

nice, simple and powerful, like it

I try to follow your hints - but in fact, I do not know how. Those were the colors of thos middle age steps. What should be different?

I agree. The lighting is so consistent and even, the image has no real "depth" to it. If you dodge and burn in places it may bring out the details...

its really flat but like that an approach of abstraction

Fits the catagory and makes the viewer think and sometimes that's the idea.....well done.

I would have tried to go a bit higher and try to include more curve of the stair to the image...just an idea

I like the idea a lot just maybe I would try to play with the composition and make it less symmetrical and I would also crop a bit the right side to get rid of those white stripes

I think the grass color is fine actually... it IS an abstract...therefore it is meant to be...well, abstract. The enhanced colors fit well. Nice work!

So my image is the prove, that tastes are different. I am happy, you like it.

Me too. I like it! Very cheerful.

Color is great, Good visual appeal. Just a great photo.

It took my interest immediately...like it

Really nice textures here, but nothing more. It needs some center of attention, some movement or something where eye should travel in the end.

I guess it is still a beautiful photo, with great tones and an unusual street-level angle. The defocused wall gives profundity to the composition, while the bricks in the front catch the attention with their perfect definition. A shot as simple as that, and yet a great one. Congrats!
Alex

Firstly, I have to say I love love love this photo, the textures and colours are gorgeous. Oddly however, I strangely found myself agreeing with the first comment. I found my eye sort of wandering back and forth aross it, looking for something to focus or rest on, as ifthere was something I couldn't see. I think it could benefit from the addition of a subject. If your intention was to make the bricks the subject, then they might beneift from filling the frame a bit more.

Or perhaps change the camera angle slightly to bring that little tiny tree a bit more into prominence, that would at least give the eye something to go to, and then can take in the rest of the scene.

thanks :):)

Really nice texture and colours, like the combination of that blue wall and red bricks. I would try to exclude the white wall from the picture to make it a bit more abstract. But I also like it as it is.

nice.

nice composition and colours

Everybody in such a hurry!

I really like the colors and the contrast between people running all over and the others watching the map!
Nice shoot !

Great blur - I might have even tried it with a longer exposure

Interesting remark, Arne, I had the same idea: I wanted a longer exposure, but it was handheld at 1/6e (I think) and I think it was the limit :o)

I like the contrast between sharp add in the corner and blur black silhouettes. it expresses nicely the hurry...

great work with shades and light

like the simplicity, just the spot in the lower left corner might be a bit disturbing...