Every photo is good. Geeez, this is hard for me.
THE WINNER: PAUL 
The photo has both a sense of drama and a feeling of height, two aspects I really liked a lot. Also, the color, exposure, and subject placement looked and felt very good as I studied the pic.
So since I've had to be silent with my opinions throughout the entirety of the contest until now, here are my assessments of the other photos:
Jimbo: I'm giving your photo runner-up status since I liked it so much. I enjoyed that the camera eye is looking down almost secretly on the fish, and I also like that the fish appears to be hovering above its own shadow, which gives the photo a very three-dimensional feel. Had the color values not been quite so washy and had it been cropped perhaps a little differently, I'd have picked it as the winner.
Ironically, you posted in the critique thread what I consider to be the single best picture of this entire assignment: The four bikes alone in the riverbed, taken from what appears to be almost a vertical vantage point. That picture had it all and is magnificent to me. If you had entered it instead, I'd have picked it hands down. Great job.
dutchinterceptor: Yours is a dramatic, engaging photo with a great humanity about it. I could stare at it all day and wish I was there riding in that environment. The main reason I didn't pick it for the win is that the rider keeps calling himself out to me as being the subject of the photo, and he isn't much -- if at all -- below the camera eye.
M38A1: If I had been judging on composition alone, yours would've won. From the color values to the use of light to the choice of field depth, I thought your photo kicked major buttock from an artistic standpoint. I just didn't get as big a feeling of "aboveness" from the camera eye as I did with some of the others.
poser: I like your use of macro-esque focal length, but it looked to me like the camera eye was actually level and away from the tip of the screwdriver, rather than above it. Color and exposure were good, too, and I love the sharp look of the vertical lines on the upper part of the red plastic lens piece. Very nice.
Snoopster: A great pic for sure, and I pined over whether or not to choose it as winner for a long time. It has a dizzying sense of height and beautiful composition. I like the punch of blueish shirt color contrasting with all the green, too. The reason I didn't pick it for the win was because I actually felt like the subject got a little lost in comparison to some of the other entries. Otherwise, super-duper and very well done.
Voni: I like the sense of self-awareness and solitude your photo embodies. The waves accentuating the clearness of the water is also a highlight for me. That said, the pic as a whole struck me as being almost accidental in some way, perhaps as if the camera slipped and you inadvertently clicked off a shot as you grabbed it. Still very nice though, and certainly true to the theme.
Thanks all. This was fun. I just hated having to pick one over the others, because art is so subjective and every photo was really cool. I appreciate your entries very much.
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