I really like this photograph it really looks good in black and white.

great shot

fantastic

Very nice composition and exposure.

nice......

one of the best entry

great painting

Congrats!

Congrats!

buda - great image. Congratulations on first place finish with it.

What an amazing shot, where was it taken?

Stunning

Looks like a great area

Nice shot

cute pooch. A few steps to your left might have given you a better background (looking right at the grey wall)

I love the composition of this photo, especially the emerald color gradient to clear on the "sweat" itself!

Love the colors and different angle of your photo! GL

different, well done

Maybe to get the moon in the shot, step closer to the tree, and do more of an 'up-angle'

Here I need to say it again, the moon is taking more attention that the three... my humble opinion!

Really effective shot - good luck

This is a picture who tell a story, very nice! Good luck!

The shot is lovely. Its my favourite sort of moody shot. I hope you do well with it and that the fact that it isn't pouring down doesn't make much difference

Nice composition, the light area in the middle. The Ferris wheel looks like to draw the light towards it.

yes! hahaha thank you!

Umbrellas are up, so it must be raining. Not many people walk around with raised umbrellas when it isn't raining. Good one.

Can't really see the rain. A nice shot otherwise, though

earphone?

It's a very nice photo and composition, well done, but for me seams more after rain than raining...

Speaker?

"The Picture MUST be taken outside and it MUST be raining, not just a cloudy day."

For me it seem like a simple cloudy day, otherwise the picture is great, but a little bit off topic.

beautiful black and white, very good

I like the mood and the lighting in this one.

Good shot, would be better if you left some more room at the bottom of the frame.

bravo

I think a tighter crop would give this more impact

These are curious creatures, and I'll have to agree with the previous comment. After examining the High Resolution image, not part of this image is in sharp focus.
It's difficult I'll admit, shooting through chain link. the auto focus struggled between the fence and the bird, the fence and the bird... a good tip in these cases is to switch the Auto Focus off, and hope that the subject still finds you as interesting as you do it while you focus past the wire. Another tip would be to back up a couple steps and close down your aperture, gaining a deeper field of focus, getting both in focus.

Nice idea, but I have problems finding where the focus is.

Jackdaw? author, I haven't heard that term used in years...LOL...nicely shot, I really like the tones here although I may have cropped a bit more off the right of the photo, not much though...well done

I would have loved a little more focus on the nail.

Great shot, good luck ; )

Torture instrument, no doubt about it

Too dark. Anything can be a "mysterious" what the hell photo if you make it too dark to see...

It's a soldering iron in its stand. Now you better place that in the description.

Looks like a European voltage converter... and a spring? (cord protector)

You are supposed to tell us, or it's off theme.

There's a bit too much of the "HDR halo" effect around the jar, which combined with the depth of focus blur of the other objects makes this a bit hard to look at. Perhaps dropping the contrast down just a wee bit to soften the highlights would help.

Might have put the building in focus, instead of the flowers

Pretty window, but could use just a little sharper focus

very badly out of focus!