Above Grand Avenue
by TooCool

Comment by obstetrify:
This must be a State Capital; which one? It has all the ingredients. Even the Venetian type campanile. It is a well-taken night shot, using the floodlighting and the street-lighting to the best advantage

Above Grand Avenue
by TooCool

Comment by pitsaman:
Sky levels overdone and showing lot of noise,well composed and perfect angle,8 !

Above Grand Avenue
by TooCool

Comment by C-Fox:
likes - wow shot 10
dislikes - ??? tis a wow shot

Above Grand Avenue
by TooCool

Comment by jpochard:
This is really a nice night shot.

Above Grand Avenue
by TooCool

Comment by corachaos:
Great view. I wonder why the street lights are reading so pink?

Above Grand Avenue
by TooCool

Comment by ccraft:
Just gorgeous colors. This one is really captivating.

Above Grand Avenue
by TooCool

Comment by Olyuzi:
I like the colors you've captured here and your exposure is good. I would only say you need to improve upon the noise most evident in the sky. Try Neat Image.

Inner Sanctum
by TooCool

Comment by TooCool:
I would like to thank everyone that left comments on this shot both during and after the challenge. I truly did not know if the golden tones would be accepted as orange...

A little background. This is the dome of Michigan's Capital Building. I have shot this building during several other challenges, but always from the outside. A few weeks back I took my son into the building. This was the first time I'd been there in 20 years. I had totally forgotten how cool this building is. I am going to be going there at least once a week for the next 6 months. I want to learn the building as I learn how to photograph architecture!

I did very little to this shot. Levels, curves, desaturated slightly the master in hue/saturation, boosted slightly the red and yellow saturations to make the orange a touch more orange, resized, sharpened, saved for web.

You can bet on seeing more of this building in the next few weeks and months.

Thanks again for all the kind comments!

Yours
TC

Inner Sanctum
by TooCool

Comment by magnetic9999:
very very nice light and color on this .. great work.

Inner Sanctum
by TooCool

Comment by BrennanOB:
How could anyone give this a score of one? Has anyone left thier keyboards alone during voting with their cat or infant in the room? Surely this couldn't be a result of someone seeing the work and thinking it warrents the lowest score possible!