I love the simplicity of this and the image really gets to the heart of the essential marriage of light and shape. Here, blocks of gradated colour are challenged by the seemingly random plant growth that appears to signal life beyond the sterile (but engaging) interior. A really well-seen and executed (and exposed) frame. Excellent.
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**This contest is open to photographers ranked between 1 and 250 in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** What are those places that we love? Maybe your bathroom, with the radio on in the shower, or bubbles piled high in the bath? Your favourite restaurant, where you keep having the same dish, even though you do still take some time to look at the menu before ordering. Maybe it’s a grand museum that inspires you, or your garden shed, where you have everything in perfect order, or not! Maybe this is interiors photography, maybe it’s portraiture or still life. But most of all it’s about the feeling you have for these spaces and places.
I think that this is really nicely done. Despite the obvious limitations of space I think that the actions of the young monks are captured well and overall this works as a rather beautiful reportage image. For me however, the frame is elevated by the gesture of the boy on the right whose arms somehow imperfectly echoes the mudra of the Buddha statues. Well done.
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This is rather lovely but I get the sense that by trying to include the artwork on the left side, the overall strength of the composition has been diminished. The people in the window - especially the four figures to the right - are the strongest elements that combine interesting architecture and human presence and I think it is they (perhaps with the addition of the woman sitting in the far window) that form the most interesting elements of the frame. Still, an excellent entry.
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