Travel

I very much like that a third of this frame is sky. I like the viewpoint and I like the mist - gives me a feeling of floating above Budapest. It's an almost watercolour image, and its muted colour is its strength. The mist cuts the city in two: on the near side we get splashes of red and colour, and on the far side - a dreamy blue.

This is a strong composition that isolates the face and relies on texture to keep the viewer there. Beguiling in that the expression is half challenge and half curiosity. I like this frame, because of its simplicity and directness.

A really nice frame and idea. It's very difficult to get a different angle on something as obvious as the Eiffel Tower, and this works really well. It doesn't scream at the viewer, because the colours are really muted, but it's perfectly balanced with the figure and the architecture equally prominent in the frame. A perfectly judged moment too with the figure - you can see the arms and legs moving and that's about timing. This is an impressionistic take on travel and one that I really like - sometimes the best pictures are in obvious places, but you have to look for them in different ways.

I think this is the chaos on the river in Dhaka. Difficult to get a frame here that shows the working river but the photographer has succeeded. I like the muted colour and I like the silhouettes of the boats in the water. A high-key mood that seems to 'melt' the further up the image you go. Subtle with a strong sense of place and atmosphere - a good example of an image that says 'this is what it looks like', but in a beautiful painterly way.

This is a beautifully executed classic panorama with all the subtlety and detail that you'd expect from such an epic landscape. The path has a gentle meander through the frame as the plain expands out before you. The pink tonality of the sky is reflected in the delicate hue of the desert. It is technically and compositionally strong, and a joy to look at.

I love this. A real sense of movement and action in such a small space. I can feel the pot wobbling, and the photographer has managed to catch the concentration on the face. It's graphically strong - good clear shapes; and circles within circles and the arms lead you in. There's also good crop/framing into the man's head - makes it striking and focused, and makes the viewer see what the photographer wants them to see rather than just showing the whole scene.

I really like this - a brave and risky composition, and it nearly comes off. If you'd have framed a little more to include some more to the right hand side, you'd have an almost perfect 'rule of third'. In two strides time, the man's hat would have been isolated against the green (rather than the path). 'Great' images are often the result of seconds either side of 'good' ones, but I like this frame.

A delightfully subtle image, muted in colour but striking in framing. The red sail draws you straight to the horizon, contrasted as it is with pastel blue of the rest of the frame. Like all good travel images it makes me want to be there. Despite its high-key tone with the sparkles on the ocean it doesn't shout and its understatement is its strength.

I like the way the girl hangs and that her arms and her legs mirror each other. She's looking elsewhere and it looks entirely natural. There's also a good use of wide aperture to blur the background.

I like the slow shutter speed that's allowed the water to blur, and I like that the prow of the boat bisects the frame at the centre.

I really like this - a potentially hackneyed image of a camel owner transformed by viewpoint and symmetry. Firstly, the view from the saddle is interesting - it's travel photography that's personal, and the gaze is not involved in the landscape around. Secondly, the smile is genuine and not effected. The head mirrors the camels and the interlocked hands are a lovely pattern, as is the swirl of fur just above his thumb. It's a thoughtful composition with nothing extraneous and clearly a happy memory of a moment.

I really like this - travel photography is about capturing a mood and a moment, not just beautiful sunsets in over-saturated colour. This is pure reportage, which shows the chaos at the Louvre. I like the people walking away and I like the woman on the right looking out of frame and covering her mouth. An interesting comment overall on the 'tourist' experience - it's ironic that they are all photographing the same thing in the same way, except the photographer here.

I really like this - striking colour and a real moment. It's brave to immerse the whole frame in a field of flowers. There's genuine happiness on the faces of the boys, which could have just been some posed, cliched smile for the camera. The photographer's close, it's intimate and it makes me want to go to this place - which is what the theme is about - I feel like I'm briefly in their world. A delightful evocation of childhood and place.

Nearly there. Good job isolating the carver and his concentration but, because the background is so confused and moreover very, very bright, that's where the eye goes to first. You have to consider both foreground and background.

I really like the idea of this and it somehow reminds me of Saul Leiter's work (check him out), but the subject isn't clearly delineated enough. The water needs to be slightly more still and perhaps with a bolder subject, but a good attempt.

This has a nice frame and the detail of the building is well picked out, but travel photography is as much about timing and light as the subject. There's likely to be a time where the sun picks out and separates the building from the cliff - that's when you need to shoot this image.

I think that this is really rather beautiful and subtle. I suspect it was a moment of good fortune shot from a plane. But no matter - as an image it's very calming and serene.

This just made me smile. It's not a winning frame, but technically it's pretty tricky to capture the action and expression of these dogs clearly having a lovely time. So well done for that.

Grimly fun, humorous and straightforward, but no less engaging for that. The picture does exactly what it needs to do and you are immediately in the market with the butcher and what he's selling.

This image has strong and intelligent composition and minimal colour. But to split hairs, the table with the cloth is a bit distracting, so maybe the frame could have been tighter, cropping just underneath the men's hands. But I like this a lot.

This is an atmospheric and lovely image. It's beautifully framed and uses the reflection to add to the romance of the pagoda. A classic travel image that makes me want to lose myself in it.

This is nicely captured with the reflection. Although it would have been a more pleasing image if all three walkers were more clearly defined, but it's a good effort nevertheless.

Lovely, abstract and whimsical. Although I might have been tempted to just show the tops of the telegraph poles and wires to make it look even more ethereal, but it's still good.

This unselfconscious moment would maybe be better framed with the figure centered and from a little further back to aid perspective. But it's still fun.

I like this, but the frame works much better without the distraction of the foreshore - the rocks are pulling my eyes down and I just want to look out to sea.

I quite like this - nicely framed, full of colour and I even like the shape of the conical hat. But either you don't see the face at all without the distraction of the woman wiping her eye (?) or you show her face. The problem is that it's a snatched frame - there's no communication and I have no idea about the woman and she's reduced to a cipher. Sometimes the photographer's interaction is useful. Catching a smile, or just waiting and engaging - even on a non-verbal level - is the key to an image.

Nice detail. The light through the smoke is well caught.

A nice enough frame, but there's a missed opportunity here for a stronger graphic image that might use the 'squareness' of the stones contrasting with the very human shape the of pray-er.

Almost. I really like the deep colours and I really like the attempt to make Venice look different. You need to be bolder though - just a portion of the gondola is better than all. A good example of how you might use the camera as a sketch pad to keep trying different angles.

This is a good isolated image full of colour and texture. It's one of those gazes that is simultaneously focused and not focused on the viewer.

Not a bad effort and it's nice that the curve leads you straight to Mont Saint-Michel, but it could be tighter. I also think the piece of the bank on the left is distracting. Conversely, you could crop lots of the sky out and make this a rather engaging landscape shape.

This image makes me feel really sorry for the little Trabant being buffeted by the icy wind. Nice, graphic composition - there's nothing 'natural' this side of the wall but the viewer is given the hint of greenery and trees on the other side.

This is a nice moment - a nun isolated against a crowd. There's a good use of aperture to make her stand out and a lovely detail with the crucifix in her right hand.