Nightfall
by Bear_Music

Comment by Prime_Time:
Nice colors. I like it lots, one thing, I tried, since you have some great colors in your water, I used selective color and pull them up the beach more. To me it gave it some more pop. Them I just painted the sky back. Just and ideal

Flood Tide & Cattails — Sunset
by Bear_Music

Comment by kaelva:
Congrats on your blue bear!! It is truely an amazing shot :D Someday I'd like to be that good :D

Flood Tide & Cattails — Sunset
by Bear_Music

Comment by pidge:
Congratulations!! Sweet shot. Retirement seems to have finally paid off ;)

Flood Tide & Cattails — Sunset
by Bear_Music

Comment by Kavey:
Stunning lighting - nice one Robert!

Flood Tide & Cattails — Sunset
by Bear_Music

Comment by pawdrix:
The more I look at this the better it gets...

Nightfall
by Bear_Music

Comment by justin_hewlett:
Simply beautiful. I like the foreground detail and the color. Also, great use of leading lines to lead the viewers eyes right to the sunset.

Drydocked, Wellfleet Harbor
by Bear_Music

Comment by hotpasta:
wow! stunning saturation and clear blue sky...well done, hope you do well with this good luck

Drydocked, Wellfleet Harbor
by Bear_Music

Comment by KarenNfld:
Definitely my favourite from the challenge. The blue sky as a background really helps the other colours and textures stand out.

Salt Marsh at Midsummer — June, 2002
by Bear_Music

Comment by jpochard:
This is a lovely shot. Just has a nice peacefulness about it without being boring.

Salt Marsh at Midsummer — June, 2002
by Bear_Music

Comment by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by kenskid: Always near the top Bear...good job. Can't we do something about the 1,2,and 3 votes on great shots like this!?!?!?

Thanx for the kind words. Check my "yellow" and "refractions" when they finish to see I'm most assuredly NOT always near the top :-)

As for the low votes, I don't see enough of them on this shot to bother me. Some people just don't like hyper-processing, which this most asuredly is. The colors have been goosed and manipulated to suit my vision of what the scene looked like, and they are what I call "hyper-real"; ditto the aggressive sharpening. It's not to everyone's taste.