Clock Towers

I loved the usage of negative space to emphasize the subject. When I first looked at it I could for a second feel the famous winds of the Porthleven Harbour. The negative space not being a spotless blue sky did that for me. The capture is spotless though, congratulations!

I've always found mountain settlements cozy. This picture could explain why... If we take a closer look we see that among all those lines that there are many human quarters. There is living space even in the clock tower above the clock... What an interesting story! I like this picture because of the story it tells me. Congratulations!

It is not the first clock tower one would think of, however fits the brief to the letter. A well balanced thoughtful composition, it includes even the lamppost as a reper point breaking up the monotony of the leading lines thus strengthening their effect. Congratulations on this well thought out and executed capture.

Ran across a few captions of this church in this contest perhaps even as good a quality as this one. What tipped the decision in favor of it was the thoughtfulness of the timing. Waiting for the sun to get smack dab behind the tower so it presents as a halo around it is a way to finish up this composition. Very well done!

Wow! What a great capture.. I love this long exposure photo. The only reason for not making the top ten is that in my opinion the focal pont is not the clock- but the tall tower behind it. However it fits the brief and it is a gorgeous capture. Very well done!

You can't go wrong working with the light. The golden hour makes out of this clock tower subject an artful showpiece. To achieve this the photographer had to have the eye to see it and the know-how to show it. Congratulations!

A centrally composed lighthouse-clock tower is unusual enough to be interesting and keeps that interest for a while longer than most pictures nowdays. The composition, the lights and the colors together are sharply emphasizing the subject. I perhaps would have added just a bit more contrast but that is just me and I like it a lot. Congratulations.

I knew we'd get a lot of Big Ben entries. This one I like most. I could not say it is an apart vantage point: many are shot from this one. I started listening to the story it tells. The black and white suggests static, but the color part is screaming people. Moving, dynamic, colorful. And finally everything in this picture says: Big Ben will be there, but people will be too: on the go. Congratulations.

Expectations of such a photograph would place it in a black ad white category to be safe, but this time just a bit of over saturation shows just how much extra it can conjure up. Out of a bland picture that it would have been in black and white, with a little courageous spicing became a winner. Congratulations!

Another high rise clock tower is the tower of a quasi Americana: chewing gum and the home of the Chicago Cubs. Built around the 19th turn of the centuries it has since been showing the time for Chicago, and it would have been disappointing if it did not have an entry in this contest. I would not say it was easy to come up with this successful composition. Sometimes the simple things are the right choice, and hard to come up with. Congratulations!

This birds eye view of a Transylvanian fortified church along with its clock tower takes me back to the nomad hordes' time when a whole village could take refuge in the church in case of danger. Seeing a quality picture of such a well preserved piece of history just wakes up feelings of gratitude toward the storyteller-photographer. Congratulations!