Raleigh
by irenes

Comment by fran:
a bit of a blue cast, but good composition...a mite ditracted by the lamp on the right. still, v. good composition - well done.

Raleigh
by irenes

Comment by tfaust:
The image seems a little dark, probably due to time of day. I wonder if you tried a tighter crop the buildings might become a stronger part of the photo... ?

Raleigh
by irenes

Comment by Artifacts:
This has a feeling of early morning as the city is just waking up. Meets challenge well. The half of car on the far left is distracting. I might have either included the whole car, cropped it out completely or waited until the road was emty or had one included auto for interest. Of course, it is hard to get drivers to cooperate that way. :) It might also have been nicer to have a bush as the central object on the right rather than the lampost, but that may be my persoanl taste. The lampost fits the urban theme OK.

Raleigh
by irenes

Comment by OOsiris:
nice - just wish that one headlight at the bottom left wasn't there - a little annoying

Raleigh
by irenes

Comment by rgordon:
I'm definitely not an expert but there seems to be a bit of blue cast in this photo. Some post processing with hues/saturation might correct this.

Raleigh
by irenes

Comment by tolovemoon:
Is that North Carolina? Cool!

Sweet dreams
by irenes

Comment by irenes:
I was falsely led to brighten this photo in Paint Shop Pro because my monitor at home is apparently slack when it comes to brightness (even though the brightness is turned all the way up). I was horrified to discover the detrimental results when viewing from my monitor at work, but it was too late to change it since voting had already begun. Oh well, it was my first submission and a learning experience.

The original was really quite nice.

Raleigh
by irenes

Comment by elemess:
This looks like it was taken in a haze. It's not that it's out of focus or not sharp, just everything seems to be skewed kinda blue - even the grass.

Raleigh
by irenes

Comment by Spork99:
nice skyline, but the leaning lamppost makes me feel off balance

Sweet dreams
by irenes

Comment by ScantyNebula:
beautiful snoozing cat - too out of focus