The overall composition is flat and too centered, with too much uninteresting hills on the side, and not enough focus on the person, or the tiny buildings in the background. Cropping some off the left would redirect the angles so the eye isn't dragged down to the center dip, and would allow more visual movement around the image.

Very rich color, without being artificially over saturated. Nice focus. Well done!

Too "target centered." Cropping a bit off the right, and a little off the bottom would help give this more of a "rule of thirds" positioning, and make it a bit more visually interesting.

I really like that each sample is different from the rest. A small touch, but visually effective. The high reflection of the box in the lower right foreground is a bit overkill, though.

One of the best black and white photos I have seen in a very long time. Excellent values!

EDIT: You've changed your entry. Pity.

Great focus, the leaf and the asphalt are both crisp and clean looking. Well done!

Excellent job of positioning the stand to prevent the candle from over dominating the image. Great photo!

This is such a dramatic looking image, truly well done!

Very nice composition! The balance of values really help the eye travel around the image.

Not enough emphasis on the hood ornament or the logo. The reflection of the legs, and all the light reflections on the hood take away from the supposed subject.

The reflection of the photographer is more dominant as a focal point than the logo.

I can almost hear the wind rustling between the stalks. Good job!

Nice composition, good angle.

Great lighting and shadow consistency. Well done.

Wonderful capture, the spark trails are great!

This is an excellent effort, and perfectly on theme, in my opinion. Wonderful work.

It seems a bit too "target centered," with the dark values over dominating the image. Cropping off about half of the dark shape on the left, and a bit off the bottom would give this a lot more visual movement, and make the dark tree on the right in the background more dynamic.

The color adjustment looks too contrived.

This composition would be stronger if you cropped the dark on the left, making the golden center more of a contrast with the dark on the right, rather than centering it.

Wonderful photo. I'd crop off just a wee bit more of the top, bringing it down closer to the wings, as that flash spot and the hood centerline distract from the logo and the ornament.

I'd crop this just a wee bit more to get rid of the disconnected branch bits at the top. Otherwise, this is a great photo, with good balance of colors and values, and the lonesome mallard a wonderful focal point!

Very nice constrasts. The values make this a successful image.

Great photo, wonderful focus - everything and everyone is so crisp and sharp!

Simply excellent use of negative space. That wide expanse of sky works SO well in this photo!

Really nice composition. That cone, positioned where it is, does a wonderful job of attracting the eye, with the clouds, horizon line curve, and rocks then balancing out the image, and pulling the eye back over to the right, until the cone then commands you to look over at it again...I really enjoy this image!

I thought it might be two cats...This could really be a much stronger image if you gave it a bit of a color correction for the yellow tint from the incandescent lighting, and adjusted the levels enough to show the secret agent resting for his next assignment...

Actually, just applying a cooling filter to compensate for the yellow tint brings out the contrasts enough for the cat to separate himself from the chair and occupy it, rather than meld with it.

I like the overexposed values, it helps emphasize the circle theme, while removing some of the "bunch of wood" look.

This works quite well in black and white, nice contrasts and visual texture!

This is a lovely work. The only problem is the shadow on the right hand cheek of the girl. It is too pronounced in comparison to the other shadows on that side, and makes the lion look like a photo that she has her face next to. If you lighten that just a bit more, so that the edges blend better, it will be more consistent with the other edges on the right hand side, and make the image more integrated. Still, a very good chop!

Love the bit of color in the reflection on the logo. Sets the composition off by providing a bit of dynamic "oomph" to a good perspective. Well done!

Good find for the theme, but the composition is exceptionally bland, with the wheel "target centered" as it is in the picture plane. This could have been much more dramatic if you had photographed it from a different angle, utilizing the "rule of thirds," or even changing the perspective by getting down on the ground to utilize the color and contrasts to better effect.

The angle of the photo really doesn't enhance the subject. There are too many angles pointing out that it's tilted.

Truly wonderful focus. Crisp and balanced, the details of the ornament are easy to see and make this a beautiful capture.

The lighting (flash?) is too bright, and distracts from the circles. Interesting looking object, though. Spice rack?

Great composition, nice overall image!

Nice angle. The paint chip is an interesting accent, without over dominating the image. If you had photographed this emphasizing the other side, that would not have been the case. Well done.

This would be stronger if you crop out the grill lines on the side and straighten the emblem. It tilts slightly down to the right, and those horizontal lines on the sides are distracting.

Thank you for the informative history of this emblem! It's a nice photo, but understanding it a bit more enhances it's visual beauty.

This photo has such a quiet and peaceful feel to it, mood wise. But the overall composition is somewhat boring, with the trees all the same basic height, and the symmetrical positioning, with the horizon line of the lake bisecting the photo almost directly in the middle. Too much was cropped off the top, so that the trees on the right look incomplete, and the darks on either side command the eye to the center of the image, where there is essentially nothing visually happening. If you cropped the right hand side, so that the brighter green was the "border," and took some of the bottom off, moving the horizon line from the "target center," it would help this visually, by making the eye move a bit more, and the lovely little golden leaves on the right would have more of an impact.

Very lovely photo. Simple, yet dramatic, with great focus and color. The sky looks blue in the background (as it should).

This would have been better with more illumination from beneath - the flash at the top draws too much attention to the wood, rather than the jars.

The background is really interesting in this photo - it almost fights with the subject for dominance.

This is a cute photo. I would suggest cropping it just a bit more on the right and across the top, to remove the small bits of whatever and the rocking horse in the background, and bring the focus more onto the sleeping dog.

Really nice leading lines with the edges of the kayak and the rope. Very well composed photo.

Really nice composition, great sense of proportion here.

Love the zipper and pockets in the front!

The use of the carrot leaves in the background is almost negligible, since you can't make out what they are. This is a lovely image, but the use of the contest source photo is very, very hard to discern within it. Submitting it to the stylus contest would be more logical, since you can somewhat make out that contest source image...Still, an excellent effort, combining many disparate images into a cohesive picture.

Good job. Humorous take on the contest source.

Very nice composition, the values of the limbs really make this work well.

This is very pretty, but the green leaves in the foreground look too blue. A wee touch of color adjustment would help immensely.