Solstice Sunrise
by vikas

Comment:
I quite enjoy this image. i don't really feel like typing up more than that right now, perhaps i will later, it's almost the end of day for me at work and i've been doing voting/commenting for a while now in between other tasks...i'm just happy to go out for the day on something i like instead of another silhouette 2 days early.

*please note, this comment may change before the end of voting based on discussing the aspects of the image that i feel work/don't work.
for now, i'm giving it a 7 and stopping

Can you hear the sound of loneliness
by Judi

Comment:
great drama going on here, but i want more. literally, it's too small.
6

Harbor Sunset
by ThingFish

Comment:
great job with this.
exposed subjects, great drama in the sky and reflected in the water. a 7 from me.

The Sunrise And The Surging Sea
by Cuttooth

Comment:
dramatic sky is great and the long exposure on the water is fun here.
can tell it's been processed, but doesn't feel overcooked.
8 from me, and expect this to top10

Y A W N ...er, I mean "DAWN"
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
dramatic sky is fun, but silhouettes are next challenge. it's very possible to still get exposed landscape in a dusk/dawn shot.
we all knew silhouettes was on the heels of this challenge, scores will likely reflect that. i know you're only getting a 5 from me as a result

• t h e • c o v e •
by Ja-9

Comment:
the cove, you say.
as much as i want to love this image (purple being my favorite color and dramatic skies being one of the things i love seeing the most in pictures), this just feels very off to me. i do not recall ever witnessing a purple sunset before, so i'm having a hard job mentally not thinking of this as being over processed.
the bottom 20% (roughly) of the image is also taking away from it in my opinion, and i can live with the silhouette in this as you have not made it a major component of the image.

i actually google'd "purple sunset" and found a striking number of images...now you have given me something new to look for, i must experience one of these myself somewhere.
and after all of that, i'm giving you an 8.

[sunset's tangerine wink]
by rjkstesch

Comment:
i love the color reflecting in the water, it, along with the dramatic cloud, are the two best things going for this image.
after seeing the sprinklers going on the other holes there, i just have to ask, did someone suggest taking a shot from the "9th at 9"?

a par5 bogey from me

Sunset Flights
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
oh the silhouettes, always the silhouettes.
sunrise/sunset do not need to be silhouettes, you can get some really breathtaking scenes with exposed landscape...
this is definitely a nice scene to see the sun rise over, but i'm afraid i'm going to have to stick you with a 5 because silhouettes are coming up next (and again after that in fact!)

Sanibel Sunrise
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
tad dark, but at least it's not a silhouette.
it does look a tad overcooked/pixelated in the sky, and too dark in the corners, almost like a very fine vignette was used that, in my opinion, shouldn't have been.
5

Sunset Facing North
by HornOUBet

Comment:
thats a very interesting cloud you captured there... looks like the displacement of someone doing a belly flop, which has me smiling at the thought of belly flopping into a cloud to make it go all wonky like that.
the pinkish/purple tones seem out of place to me, but overall the lighting feels very natural, so i'll go with the fact that this is how it looked in person.
thank you for still keeping your foreground exposed and not a black void.
a 6 from me.