Once a rose.
by EgillP

Comment:
Great contrast. Lovely photo.

Asleep in the Pews
by markwiley

Comment:
Quite surprised this didn't get more attention. Great image, Mark.

Surf & Light
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Fresh and exhilarating scene. Beautiful. The stop-motion waves add to the immediacy and freshness of the image (both as a moment in time and that it's not another blured out seascape ;) Nice tones, and nice movement in the clouds. I can feel the strong breeze from here.

fall vines
by BrennanOB

Comment:
Wow, beautiful scene. I love the contrast between the austere foreground and the richly colored vineyard. I want to congratulate you for catching it at such a wonderful moment to get the light on those vines despite the weather, and then I remembered the challenge and want to congragulate you again on bubling up the very best in this scene for the viewer, regardless of the circumstances. Well done.

Evening
by Melethia

Comment:
Great shot. Beautiful tones and colors, and a wonderful scene with the gulls (great movement included), the pier, summer sunset colors and... Christmas trees?! This may be a very normal scene for you, but there's a nice unexpected twist to it for me. There's also something very organic about those pier stanchions, quite possibly because they're not just silhouettes. This should do quite well.

Autumn Beauty
by wei1108

Comment:
Lovely photo. Beautiful scene presented very nicely.

Cactus Fruits
by androgeus

Comment:
Super rich colors and tones give this a great gloom. Storybook sky.

What I'm about to say is something I cannot do, but with some of the software out there I know it's possible and I think it might even give this already great image a boost. You obviously know what you're doing with PP, but consider this... The eye is caught in the front of the photo with the fruits, and then it has to jump over a bit of dulled space to get to the great sky/horizon. But there are more fruits at 9 o'clock and then another closer to the cityscape. The cacti also seem to present a trough right there. With some targeted exposure manipulation of brightening that fruit up a bit and "lighting a path" through the trough, you'd be able to lead the eye from the rich fruit up front, through the cacti to the other fruit, and on to the horizon and sky. Just a theory, of course, but maybe worth playing around with. or it may completely ruin the image.

Regardless, this is super.

Power House
by Marston

Comment:
Nice scene and well done on the processing.

In my mind, however, the interesting story here is all that steam blowing into the sky. I'd wager you've got a number of shots of this, and I think a slight adjustment in composition/cropping would make this more interesting. I do love what HDR can do with clouds/smoke/steam, so this is really well spotted.

Across the Water
by jimness

Comment:
Excellent. So incredibly crisp and clean. Very interesting use of exposure management. Front-pager.

Retired
by dtallakson

Comment:
Texture and then some. Quite busy but also quite interesting. Cool image.