A Delicate Balance
by tfarrell23

Comment by ChrisW123:
Use your burn tool to bring out the contrast in the clouds. The tree is PERFECT, as well as the field and trees in the back. Pretty nice. The clouds need work tho. Last, you should have either leveled the tree or the horizon. Both are NOT level!

Reelfoot
by tfarrell23

Comment by PapaBob:
Wow Tom this was one of my favorites for the challenge, I gave you a 10, nice to see it was yours! Good finish, I am sure if the left side of the image had been open like the right side you would have seen even more 10's.

Reelfoot
by tfarrell23

Comment by RulerZigzag:
Great reflections and composition.

A Delicate Balance
by tfarrell23

Comment by Bear_Music:
This is a lovely image, very inviting. I love the keyline on this one, too. However, the softness of the sky is very offputting to me in the context of the rest of the image, and especially in the context of an AA challenge, because he worked hard to make his clouds crisp. Even the landscape itself is softening in the BG, you have a surprisingly limited DOF. Ansel, on the other hand, was known for the deep clarity of his images, he used very small apertures and the tilts on his view camera to attain maximum usable DOF.

The rendering of the tones, on the other hand, is absolutely first rate, and overall it's a very, very pleasing image. It's just that, for THIS challenge, I'd prefer to see it crisper in the depths and in the sky.

A Delicate Balance
by tfarrell23

Comment by mpeters:
Great quality of light here-- Good foreground form and I can see for miles.

Poivre Rouge
by tfarrell23

Comment by SoulMan1978:
One of us should be suing the other, not sure which ;-)



Great work on a top 10, I like yours much better than mine, the colour comes out teriffic :-)

A Delicate Balance
by tfarrell23

Comment by melissamp99:
Of all the images this one is most deffenatly done in the Ansel style, maybe the tree should be a little lighter but still looks god.

Reelfoot
by tfarrell23

Comment by ThingFish:
Fantastic. Beautifully composed. Would be nice to frame and hang in the home. 8

A Delicate Balance
by tfarrell23

Comment by rlewis:
Good contrast and composition, the best I have scored so far

A Delicate Balance
by tfarrell23

Comment by boyd2000:
Really nice flat landscape, which is hard to make aesthetically pleasing, but isn't the horizon way off? Lopsided rather than Balanced? Not voting.