As Daylight Fades
by Skip

Comment by graphicfunk:
Congratulations on your 14th placing. This is almost hypnotic.

As Daylight Fades
by Skip

Comment by thewriterside:
Congrats on 14th place, Skip! Great photo!

Celebrating Sunset, Jockeys Ridge
by Skip

Comment by irika:
hey, I'm from Nags Head! awsome picture, caputers the mood of outer banks kids

Celebrating Sunset, Jockeys Ridge
by Skip

Comment by ButterflySis:
I really like this - the real bright sky with the dark silhouettes. A few things bother me about this though... I find the yellow in the sky to be very distracting and the running child appears to have only one leg. I think this would work great as a panoramic image. I would crop out the yellow part of the sky and crop up from the bottom to leave just a sliver of land - that has more impact for me. Nice catch though!

Celebrating Sunset, Jockeys Ridge
by Skip

Comment by NRRon:
Sell it to Apple!

Celebrating Sunset, Jockeys Ridge
by Skip

Comment by shoyles:
Great capture.

Celebrating Sunset, Jockeys Ridge
by Skip

Comment by TLL061:
fantasic job

Celebrating Sunset, Jockeys Ridge
by Skip

Comment by aznym:
I know this one! I still love it.

Celebrating Sunset, Jockeys Ridge
by Skip

Comment by e301:
You've taken this quite a long way from the 'real' with that sky. It works, compositionally, just fine; but my immediate feeling is that it might have been the more powerful for a more real sky. There is a clash of sentiments, with that very processed look and yet the candid obvious fun of the children - almost a sense of playing on the eve of disaster, perhaps? Though a lot of that comes from your title, I suppose: without which, it would be possible to see this as a depiction of terrror, those poses could be fear and flight as much as anything.

Celebrating Sunset, Jockeys Ridge
by Skip

Comment by samtrundle:
This is spectacular. Really really joyous. Normally I would find the yellow a little too much, but it seems to work fairly well here. Oh and the horizone seems to recede fractionally from left to right. Whatever. 9.