My Own Island
by Allen1634

Comment:
My first thought about this is that I would have tried different viewpoints, probably ending up shooting from more to your left, to get a leading line with the spit of land coming from the corner or bottom of the image. It looks as if it was late in the day with a sprinkle of rain going on.

Urban Landscape
by mdiddyv

Comment:
Nice framing with the trees. The sky reminds me of London England.

Distant landscape
by jimsapp

Comment:
That's the correct title. The moon is a fascinating place to explore with a good telescope.

Poorly Landscaped
by jaysonmc

Comment:
It looks like you were short on open country for this challenge. None the less, it's a good image and is helped by the lack of color.

Sky cannon
by Darkpixel

Comment:
Something to anchor the viewer in the foreground would give this one more pull.
That's a pretty place, and technically the image is very good.

golden dreams
by knikki

Comment:
Nice, but more DOF would have made this one more interesting to me.

Landscape with Nesting Swans
by nickyb

Comment:
It must have been a tough decision about cropping the tree tops and leaving in more blank sky or using this version with less empty sky. A good partly cloudy day would have been sweet, but we can't do much about the weather. Beautiful scene BTW.

Tangle
by jomari

Comment:
love the color in this.

egrets14shutterbug
by debbiedsd

Comment:
The light reflected off the water and the dark BG make this quite striking! Most people overexpose white birds. This one is just right.
Congrats on the ribbon.

Skyward Dreams
by cowtownmom

Comment:
This is an event made for photographers. I see some of the balloons that were there in 06. It's a grand experience. One of the balloons landed next to me, and it turned out that they were from less than 100 miles from my home in Florida. We became friends and still connect often.
It looks like you were having a great day there too. Good image.