rohit___perpetual_chonking

Some observations:-

Strong sunlight is making eyes look dark, also her right side of face is also a bit darker than her left. A reflector would have set it right, unless you intended it that way.

I think you could have done better with the background as well by making the model stand at a place where the water appears more uniformly rather than the grass.

What is it on the top of her head, the small white spec? It looks a bit odd to me.

Here is a photograph by Peter Keetman of water drops on a glass surface. But it is quite different than what is shown in POW.

I was not able to find his photograph named "Thousand Faces."

I looked at the picture several times during the week trying to appreciate its feel but still it remains dull and boring. The only thing I appreciate is the similarity of the structures but that may be because of the architects running out of imagination rather than how the photo fills the frame.

I thing the editors ran out of imagination on selecting the POW.

The photo does convey in a simple yet strong way the message of a city turning into a "concreate jungle" and a resident feeling like a small cocoon surrounded by these sky scrapers.

However I am not sure if it does anything to cheers us up in terms of originality or asthetics or it adds a new dimension to the way the mood of a city/megapolis can be captured.

A simple photo of a Bombay slum thriving by the side of a skyscraper would convey more meaning.

The editors have given a strong emphasis on the grain of the photo as a deciding factor but to me it fails to impress.

Regards

Rohit

Nice use of light and the broken curves give a great effect to the photo. Congratulations on POW !!

If somebody thinks this has been done before by Popular photography then he should substantiate it be giving a few photos here.