This image is such a strong illustration showing plastic as a pollutant in such a tragic setting. Your timing is good, as is your exposure and composition. I appreciate your choice to convert to black and white as I imagine the colors in the image would be distracting from the strong focus evident on the child's face. Great photo!
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I love this abstract, especially the colors in it. Great choice of subject material for a competition on plastics. I like how you have cropped in tight and included a little of the record label to help viewers distinguish what we are looking at. Very good use of light and management of light and camera angles.
I like this as a very alternative type of boxing photo. Your focus on the water bottle places it well in this competition on plastic. I like the backlighting and how the light is hidden behind the boxer with it illuminating the water bottle so nicely. It's a good strong composition with the two arms in the photo creating great shape and flow.
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**This contest is open to photographers ranked below 1000 in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** Everywhere you look, there’s plastic. Super useful and adaptable, it’s transformed our world, but now seems like it’s getting into more places than we’d really appreciated, or would like it to, and production is still rising. Our food and products come wrapped in it, our kids play with it, our cars and buildings are full of it, and annually, globally, about 50kg of plastic is produced per person. You may have some compelling images of plastic objects in your archive, but you may also want to pick up your (part-plastic) camera, start looking around and be reminded just how surrounded by the stuff we are.
