===== From rgow@lanset.com: Interesting concept. Focal blur comes on a bit strong. ===== From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com: Focal blur doesn't make an image more impressive, it usually tends to ruin it. The idea itself is quite clever, though. ===== From tek@evilsuperbrain.com: Beautiful in it's simplicity. ===== From xilo_m@hotpop.com: Good looking, though you should have refined the placement of the bricks and the gate and the camera to make it "mean" something or make it "do" something... for example, this might have been the portal to the world of brick-building! ===== From marlo.steed@uleth.ca: Simple but well done! Many other entiries tried to do something simple but failed because they didn't make it interesting. Your image succeeds at this. Excellent work with the camera and DOF. The choice of color schemes works well too. The only reason I don't rate it higher on technical merit is that it needed more detail in the structure to be a winning image. Still it is a nice image in its own right. ===== From hildurka@simnet.is: Nice colors, but a very simple scene. Too simple for my taste and probably a little off topic. ===== From chris_hormann@gmx.de: Nice and 'bright' idea for an image. ===== From p_chan@shaw.ca: Nice use of focal blur. The structure in the foreground feels somewhat awkward as it seems as if it is about to fall. ===== From r@ip68-11-81-210.no.no.cox.net: Very simple design. The focal blur seems to be used to zero effect. Nice use of colour.