A thought-provoking image. Is this life starting out on the planet, or ending? I suppose the latter, as an Earth devoid of all life ab initio wouldn’t be all gray. I’m not sure what sort of disaster would not only wipe out green life, but also change the color of the seas and the clouds. The remote view, while needed to convey this idea, also tends to lessen the emotional impact. I’m rating this one at mid tier.

This one I didn't like quite as much, simply because it's a little confusing. What passed through my mind on first sight was something along the lines of "Greyed-out Earth with the moon in front of it." Now, clearly, I was not operating on all cylinders at the time, but first impressions are the most important.

My confusion pretty much stems from the circle of color, which I stated I thought was the moon on first glance. I just don't know why it's there. Taking the name into account, this is how I see it: a massacre that killed everything and turned it grey, except for that one spot for some reason. Did whatever happened somehow know the site of the first Alamo? Is the circle just to say 'this is the first one, outside here is the second?' Or is it there as a sort of origin point, 'ground zero' if you will.

I can't even agree with GGA that's it's thought-provoking so much as infuriatingly answerless...

I'm sorry that I ripped on this so much. I just can't really find anything to praise about it short of something like "hey, nice work using photoshop to grey out a picture..." I'm not against using this tactic with art, I just don't think it went over so well this time.

I admit that it took me about five or ten seconds to even realize what I was looking at, here. Which may not sound like a big deal, but I do believe that in most visual art, there needs to be some kind of immediate recognizability for the viewer to latch on to and start synthesizing thoughts. In that sense, ten seconds of fumbling and looking up at the title to try to get a hint really hunts you.

I think you've greyed out the earth too much here, until it bleeds into the background. I didn't even see the earth's silhouette at first, only the colored central spot and vague whitish shapes around it. I think you'd need to make sure everything is much more recognizable for this to work as intended.

I've forgotten what the Alamo is.

I think this is thought-provoking, I mean you did get two stories out of it. My only concern is that this looks low-effort, not that it necessarily was.

Unless you took this picture yourself, in which case, send me a DM and I'll put you right at the top, damn!

Don't actually.