I love this set PyGuy.  And they seem to perfectly represent a negative space theme to me.  I like the first shot best as well--the B&W is gorgeous and the tension the negative space creates is marvelous.  Love them all.

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I kinda favor num 3 although I think a little more of the kilns would have balanced it better in my eye.  But I don't have an artists perspective.

Nice shots and they fit the challenge pretty well. ^^ As has been said though, I think it would be better if there were more of the buildings. The first one is good though, my fave. :)

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Thank you for your comments. Regarding those about the amount of the buildings I used in this post, please refer to one of the links that EMF listed in one of the forums.  http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/enhancing-your-art-with-negative-space/  Check to see how much building is showing in examples there.

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I invited an artist friend of my up yesterday to help me understand negative space better.  The first image she showed me was on of Georgia O'Keeffe's that was about 90% white negative space.  At the end of my "lesson" I had her comment on all of the challenge photos.  She really liked yours for the callenge (well actually she just really liked yours).  The first one was her favorite BTW.  My comment above was something of a yin-yang thing striving for an equal balance of neg/pos space.  She didn't subscribe to that thinking.  Also I was wanting more of the interesting subject; she said that was ok but that is up to the artist as to how much they want to empahaize the subject by the use of negative space.  I guess in the big picture (haha pun not intended) you left me wanting more... so that is a good thing, right?  Now you have to perform :)  Looking forward to your next post.