This one is baffling me. I just can't figure out how you achieved this within the rules. It says that it has been validated, so I hope you will be able to share your technique with us. Good job.
That really heavy balck order is I guess appropriate in this case - and I like the intention I percieve here - though i always find selective desturation slightly too blunt an effect to have real emotional impact. Love the rest of the editing work - though the suggestion of the sun in that burnt-out light makes the absence of shadows a touch too weird for my taste. Intriguing shot though - great sense of balance, compositionally.
The grain works with this shot. Build-up of picture is rather good. Glare adds a lot. The only negative thing is the border. Perhaps finer or left out completely next time. 8
What a moving image. Based on the date on the stone, it's obvious that this is a new monument, so it's a good, if sorrowful, interpretation of the topic at hand.