autumnal
by bvy

Comment:
Spectacular tonality but the picture hurts the eyes in a way autumn never does

romance
by skewsme

Comment:
Like a melody

Ortega Oaks, Santa Ana Mountains
by bspurgeon

Comment:
The enchanted forest

afterward
by posthumous

Comment:
Pushed the processing a bit too much but still beautiful

The last one
by evanescente

Comment:
Beautiful, like a Japanese writing.

"Resignedly, beneath the sky, the melancholy waters lie..."
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Baroque and yet, so simple - this is THE image we long for to contemplate.

"Is there anything of which one can say,
�Look! This is something new�?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them. "

A spectacular palipsest of memory and melancholy as said by the Ecclesiastes

"For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?"

I consider this image a spectacular achievement in photography.
This is by far the best interpretation of the challenge in my view, leaving the digital art and other little tricks way behind.

"...is but a dream within a dream"
by LevT

Comment:
Yes Lev, you succeeded wonderfully!

by messerschmitt

Comment:
They talked and talked until their eyes could not see, their noses could not smell, and their hair flapping in the wind pulled the skin tight over the blunted bones ....

by messerschmitt

Comment:
the good, old, dignified butler

Rule Britannia
by daisydavid

Comment:
Hope it's not ominous; looking like distorted Europe