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To pass judgement

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What is Life:
Focus on the foreground is good from a technical level and it is obvious this is taken early in the day, from the dew on the web, and the background out of focus, as it should be for this kind of shot. I once had a go at pushing depth of field and ended up with a gigantic tree stump.

That said, I suppose it would have been nice to have got a web that was not as damaged, but I tend to be more a perfectionist here. As for depicting the theme, I feel I need to be given the theme and the image needs to shout that theme without me needing to read the title justifying it. I'm sorry to say, inspite of the technical details of getting this image right, it does not in my opinion shout out that theme.

The Colour Orange
Hmm it may be a reasonable attempt at an orange tree, but if I was looking at the general theme of a particular colour, I would expect that colour to dominate, and from what I can see only one bunch of three oranges with one other nearby are actually orange. The others are more red and the predominate colour is green from the leaves.

Jéssícá
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CaraRawr

What is life
Brief, Moody to the point made atmospheric by use of black and white photography. Does what it says on the tin as it were. If I were doing it I would probably not have had the lady's face obscured by the card and have got her to give a deeply sullen expression, to match the mood of the shot, but then that's me. I have to admit though I could see this as one of those Athena post cards.

The Colour Green
Well it has green in it. After the other entry by the contestant, this one comes as a bit of a let down for me. Yes it is a green blanket on a bed with black sheets, however I could be wrong, but the area of black may be just about equal to the area of the green blanket, so I am not sure if it really summarises green to me.

GypsyGoth

What is Life
Excuse me, is that an orange on a pink blanket or an egg it is not exactly clear, so for me it fails to cut it.

The Colour Purple
While most of the picture contains purple as a background colour, the foreground butterfly is actually white, so I am not sure this speaks purple to me. To use an old cliché, "Close but no cigar"

Nate

What is life
Well as a cloud shot for an atmospheric day, possibly, however with the theme, what is life, I am not sure this fit's the bill. I read the blurb about the Sun being the source of life, but that sounds too much like a justification to submit an entry, so I am not convinced this satisfies the theme.

The Colour Red
If you look past the soft focus, compositionally this is well achieved, and it does speak to me about the colour red. Thinking about that soft focus, given that roses are also meant to signify affairs of the heart maybe this just about gets away with it, however it probably would mean it would not be up to commercial standard which would require them to be crisp. A valiant effort.

Patrick

What is life
No No No!

This looks like a tawdry holiday snap of some unfortunate who is just about to hurl into that pool. It totally misses the mark completely.

The Colour Yellow

Sorry but those lights are not yellow, city lights are orange. This does not say yellow to me in any way shape or form.

PJ
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