Queues

Another creative entry with clever use of the reflection to give a slightly distorted view of the queue. The image could perhaps be improved by spending a few minutes straightening up the horizontals and verticals?

Love the humour and the ramshackle nature of the shop. I was going to suggest that you straighten up the horizontals and verticals but I honestly don’t think it possible in this case!!

Ha-ha, very creative and great fun. The guy on the right looks angry and is evidently impatient to get his hands on a cake.

Thanks for submitting such a fun image and a very creative interpretation of the brief.

Public toilets and queues go hand in hand

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest and for submitting such a variety of different images.

As mentioned in the contest brief I defined a queue as an orderly arrangement of people or things waiting for something or waiting to do something, as opposed to a passive arrangement of objects such as a row of bottles on a shelf or birds on a branch. In this respect my judging favours those entries that I feel best followed the brief, but also which brought a creative approach to the depiction of a queue.

My winning entry admittedly depicts a very small queue (only two people although there may well be more in the shelter) waiting for a water bus. What pushes this into first place for me though is the clever use of reflections in and views through the windows to give the image a delightful complexity. There’s just so much to look at and hold the attention.

A pity maybe that there isn’t a little free space down the right edge of the picture but all in all this is such a clever image and in my opinion well worthy of the top spot.

Congratulations !!

A nicely composed image and another fine monochrome conversion. Such a simple scene, evidently from pre-Covid days, but the balance of the single individual on the left and the queue of three on the right works so well.

Congratulations on a top ten placing.

What a great image and proof that queues aren’t static but do indeed move, albeit too slowly as a rule of thumb.

I love the movement in this image and by chance or by design the shutter speed is just about perfect. Too slow and the queue would be just a blur of colour, too fast and it would be a frozen line of people.

A stand out image, congratulations on your top ten placing.

OK, this is not a queue in an orderly sense of the word but the crowd of people is definitely waiting for something, in this case athletes awaiting the start of a marathon.

I just love the viewpoint and riot of colours in this image. Congratulations on submitting a picture of the most disorderly queue in the whole contest !!

A simple, stark and rather sad image depicting hard times in the 1930’s Great Depression in the USA.

A queue of men, a breadline, with downcast eyes waiting resignedly for food alongside a firmly closed door.

I googled this memorial out of interest and it’s accompanying inscription reads “ I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

Wise words indeed and thanks for submitting such a thought provoking entry.

There were quite a few submissions showing queues of traffic and this is my favourite of that ilk.

It’s quite a decent landscape in its own right, and I can just feel the frustration of the drivers in the queue of vehicles snaking off into the distance (which incidentally guides the eye through the image to the mountains beyond).

My one minor criticism is that a bit of free space to the right of the police car would have been nice.

All in all though a great image and a deserved top ten placing.

The quality of the monochrome conversion first caught my eye with this image. It’s superbly well done and pops right off the screen.

Just a photo of people waiting for public transport on a miserable wet day but there’s so much interest to hold the attention. People like to look at other people and I find my eye scanning back and forth at each individual in the queue.

There would be a danger of the composition being bottom heavy but the tall chimney and trail of smoke blowing in the wind balance things out nicely.

All in all an excellent image and well worthy of a top ten placing.

I love the humour in this image of a few ladies queuing for use of the loo. Very lucky that the lady on the left is first in line or there could be an embarrassing accident.

Great fun, well done!!

There were many submissions depicting lines and rows of animals and objects which I would argue are not strictly queues as defined in the contest brief.

Semantics apart, this is such a delightful image that I thought it worthy of a commendation.

My next contest will be “Lines of Animals in the Rain” and this will surely be a top ten entry 😀