Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by heida:
Awesome picture its like its floating in the air! Congratulations!

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by tfaust:
Now this is an absolutely incredible image. This would make an excellent print. Great job and congrats on the blue ribbon! :-)

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by xenoaxle:
Good image, well done.

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by MikeO:
Gordon! Brilliant - I had hoped this would do well. I knew it was a good shot when my Wife whent 'wow'when she looked at it !!

Mike

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by LindaLee:
Congratulations on winning with this stunning photo! Hope you plan to make it available for prints - I want one!

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by marbo:
Congratulations on your blue ribbon. Your in the "8" club.

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by geewhy:
A big thank you to everyone who voted and commented.

Quite surprised (but delighted)by the level of success..especially as I was in two minds about submitting this image.
I will post a message later today which will show the original image and the two alternatives that I pondered over.
There have been some enquiries as to how much manipulation went into the shot and my post should confirm that there was very little work needed. I was helped by the perfect conditions and the vantage point which allowed me to crop out the horizon..thus helping create the effect.
Believe me ..it would have to be simple..my prowess at post processing is extremely limited. In fact it would not surprise me if I have done something while downloading this image from my camera which has upset the EXIF....wouldn`t be the first time :-)
Fingers crossed and thanks again to all.

Gordon

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by e301:
Profoundly good work Gordon: 12 challenges in and then the 15th hoiighest rated shot on the site - bordering on the unfair :-) Very pleased for you - was going to say keep it up, but perhaps I'd rather the rest of us were left with a chance. Intriguing that all your 'averages' are whole numbers, too.

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by amsmyth:
Congratulations on the blue for a wonderful image

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment by peecee:
Congratulations on a marvelous shot