This wasn't easy...
1st - 10 pts - 17 Powers Out Toughest Stains
2nd - 8 pts - 15 Relic
3rd - 6 pts - 14 Ceský sen
4th - 5 pts - 4 Deserted
5th - 4 pts - 13 Life on the Streets
6th - 3 pts - 18 Chicago Sears Tower
7th - 2 pts - 20 Wishful
8th - 1 pt - 8 Edna's Sports
"Powers Out Toughest Stains" may not be best from a photographer's point of view, but I find it quite strong, and it "speaks".
The first time I looked at "Wishful", I wondered what the heck it was doing in the Urban round. When I looked closer, I found it to be a quite creative and clever interpretation of the subject.
I liked the first picture, "4th Street", but even if it's taken in a town or city, it doesn't have anything I connect with "urban". Otherwise it would have been in my list.
I really liked Relic.
The composition seems to go against some of the "rules" of photography; the subject is looking out of the photo, but I guess that's part of the appeal of the pic. Its an old man, looking and walking out of frame, into the unknown, with life's collections of memories following behind in the cart.
It reminds me of Johnny Cash' final single, for some reason, in which he's sitting at his piano as an very old, very frail man, and the video is made up of real footage of him as his life unfolds. Very moving.
I'm looking forward to the explanation of Wishful as at the moment, I'm stumped.
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*Crash*
Congratulations, Gatecrasher!
1Powers Out Toughest Stains(Gatecrasher)83
2Deserted(DdV)74
3Untitled(magnublm)69
4Ceský sen(Regneark)67
5Relic(DdV)67
6Life on the Streets(Regneark)35
7Edna's Sports(kirksey957)33
8Chicago Sears Tower(bananawho)20
9Chicago Skyline(bananawho)19
10Bodemuseum, Berlin(Nordlys)18
11Passing Through(Nordlys)16
12Anachronism(lioness)15
13Buy, Buy, Buy!(Nordlys)15
14Forest Floor(catfoodtim)11
154th Street(magnublm)10
16Wishful(Niallone)10
17Forest Canopy(catfoodtim)9
18Pedestrian Crossing(mokko)2
19Downtown Drive(mokko)0
20Smoke and Mirrors(mokko)0
