Holes

There were many holes one could choose from for this photo challenge but you selected one that had been completely overlooked by other entrants - the button hole. This is a great, simple and original idea which despite being so small, fills the frame completely. I love the textile texture of your macro photo surrounding the black hole. It shows that you don’t have to travel to far flung places in search of creativity - it’s enough to look down at the clothes you’re wearing.

I can never resist a comedy entry. In order to bring your humorously conceived idea into fruition you’ve sadly had to make holes in a couple of your rubber ducks. That’s the kind of sacrifice, a dedicated photographer like you, has to make for their art. This is a well thought, well assembled and well taken photograph that put a huge smile on my face. I love the simple yellow and red colours broken up by the incredulous-looking green frog watching from the sidelines. Yours is my winning entry because there’s every shred of evidence to prove that your photograph, on the hole, is a grate one.

You’ve put your colander holes to exceptionally good use allowing running water to cascade through them like tiny, man made waterfalls. This is a photo I’ve been meaning to take myself but you’ve beaten me to it. I like that the translucent water has soaked up the red colour of your centrally positioned colander. Your subtlety lit still life photo excels by being sharply contrasted against the plain black background.

This photo looks like a scene from a science fiction movie. One can imagine a spaceship being drawn through the vortex towards the large, distant, black hole. Without actually counting them, your psychedelic zoom might well contain the highest number of holes entered into this challenge. For that reason alone it deserves a top ten place. But I chose it because of how well you’ve joined the four interior segments of the steam boiler tank, to create, a seamless kaleidoscopic composition.

Amongst the maelstrom of sixteen hundred very busy hole photograph entries comes your very sober, minimalist, macro composition. A single hexagonal rusty nut, surrounding a round silver thread, placed in one third of your white background, gets my less-is-more vote. A very relaxing and understated photo which stands out precisely because of its simplicity.

This is a most unusual view of a basketball hoop strung full of stringy holes. The clever placement of the basketball in the centre of the hoop completes your photo perfectly. I’m not sure if the ball was shot in situ or was placed there in post-production. Whichever route you took is okay by me - whatever it takes to make a great photo is justified in my opinion.

This architectural photo intrigues me. I can tell from your title that it was taken at the Mandarin Oriental in Barcelona, other than that I can only guess that it might be of the hotel’s antrum. The yellow and black rectangular holes leading up to the skylight are colourfully offset by the single red stripe running the length of one of the four grey walls. Whatever it is you’ve photographed, you’ve managed to capture a very intriguing abstract hole composition.

Seen up large I thought this was a landscape photo of parched earth craters. It was only by reading your title and looking at a reduced version of the image that I realised it was a close up of a dog’s nose. This is a very clever interpretation of the brief and the monochrome treatment works better than had it been entered in colour. You’ve got a very good nose for a photo.

The holes in this photo are visually lost by being packed so close to each other within the hexagonal walls of the child’s playground apparatus. As evidence of their existence they have cast bright light, polka dots over the joyful boy’s face and body. Compositionally you’ve shot through the opening hole at one end of the tunnel through to the hole at the other end and placed the toddler’s head and shoulders exactly in the middle of the frame. Neat!

There were many entries shown looking through holes but your photo was the one that drew me in the most. Your minimalist framed composition with contrasting (broken and unbroken) panes of glass leads the viewer towards the window’s broken hole and the street scene beyond. I wonder how long you had to wait until suitably dispersed pedestrians entered your line of vision. The pink umbrella, in your almost monochromatic composition, works especially well against the rain’s pitter-patter texture.