Red Skiff, Blue Skiff, Geese Foraging in the Morning Mist...
by Bear_Music

Comment by justin_hewlett:

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff: Thought this could be yours.

I think any entry with the word "Skiff" in the title is a dead giveaway. :)

Red Skiff, Blue Skiff, Geese Foraging in the Morning Mist...
by Bear_Music

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Thought this could be yours. Strong showing in a tough challenge. Congrats on another piece of profile bling!

Red Skiff, Blue Skiff, Geese Foraging in the Morning Mist...
by Bear_Music

Comment by kenskid:
Go Bear ! I finished voting tonight. I voted on this 5 mins before the end. I gave you a 7.

Red Skiff, Blue Skiff, Geese Foraging in the Morning Mist...
by Bear_Music

Comment by khdoss:
Stunning 10 all the way and a fav..

Red Skiff, Blue Skiff, Geese Foraging in the Morning Mist...
by Bear_Music

Comment by Quintus:
I would crop about half of the tree on the left side. Cropping is tough, we never want to eliminate some nice details but everything needs to serve the composition as a whole.

Red Skiff, Blue Skiff, Geese Foraging in the Morning Mist...
by Bear_Music

Comment by Cory:
Nice image! There seems to be a bit of banding in the sky, and I'm not so keen on the super-smooth, but low-detail look.. For me HDR is all about high-detail! :) Still, a solid 7.

Morning Mist
by Bear_Music

Comment by bmartuch:
Beautiful shot.

Morning Mist
by Bear_Music

Comment by tanguera:
There is something so odd and wonderful about this image. It looks more like graphic art than a photograph. The featureless sky and water, the bold horizontal lines, the splash of color. Front page.

Red Skiff, Blue Skiff, Geese Foraging in the Morning Mist...
by Bear_Music

Comment by Olyuzi:
The aerial perspective and DOF is wonderful and I like the rhythm in your title and photograph along with its implied leading line. I find my eye skips along from red skiff to blue then to geese but this compositional element itself is not enough to prevent the image from losing some of its poetry for me. The mood is ambivalent. Colors go from bold to muted, grass too yellow a green, yet sky too drab a purple. The sky appears flat lacking any detail. It looks as though you've used a GND (maybe too strong a one). My guess is you over processed the overall image to make up for the flat available light.

Also, whatever is sticking up out of the red skiff is distracting. One other nitpick is the positioning of the blue skiff. I know you have no control over this matter, but I wish it were facing towards the tree so that we could see more of its port side to serve a better foil to the red boat. Finally, the pink lifesaver is the straw for the camel and really does this image in, though I think a lot of the voters will like it and vote it highly.

Red Skiff, Blue Skiff, Geese Foraging in the Morning Mist...
by Bear_Music

Comment by cpanaioti:
The processing makes this look like a cartoon backdropped with a real image. A little less processing I think would make it look more natural.