# 2 is my favourite and here is my rationale for my choice.
The contest theme is 'food' and this photo makes me the hungriest.
I maybe accused of being a carnivore...but those three burgers...posed side by each...stimulate...I might say 'provoke a visceral response !
Maybe I'm the dog in Pavlov's experiment...but so be it...there is nothing like really good burger and these hamburgers look far beyond the average run of the mill...burger.
Lighting is good, composition achieves what it set out to achieve...to demonstrate 'food'...in a way that makes me want to tuck into this food...that I see in image # 2.
And isn't that the whole point of this contest ? This epitomizes food...to my eye and to my palate.
The other pix are great...still life... for the most part...some wonderful 'Old Master' lighting in some. But to me a fruit/vegetable in a well lit, well composed picture...is wonderful to look at, but doesn't trigger my hunger pangs....as did Image # 2...the burger family, with apologies to A & W.