challenge ~ met composition (content) ~ interesting swirls ... is it water with foodcoloring or something? i would have placed the swirl exactly in the center, or used the rule of thirds ... you are somewhere in between. background ~ background and subject are kind of the same, so it's hard to say. a slightly tighter crop could've gotten rid of the bottom left corner which doesn't fit in with the rest of the shot. camera work (technical) ~ fine. digital processing (technical) ~ good. my opinion ~ it's abstract, but not so abstract that i can't even guess at what it may be (although my guess may be wrong, at least i can visualize something out of the photo). i would've liked a little less white, and maybe some more sharp lines, but that may not have been possible, and that's also just personal taste, especially for an abstract photo. overall good shot. ~~ gr8photos
a little more off center would have been better compositionally, i think. not sure. the off white in the lower left hand corner is too... distracting, i guess. the lines are beautiful, and the color distrubution fantastic. abstract things rule. it's not perfect, but i like it enough to give it a ten anyways.