This is my first entry with my new toy (20D thanks to CEJ)!
Taken at Greyledge lake (where I grew up).
PP included: crop, several slight layers of LucisArt & gaussian blur, lots of small levels adjustments, replace color, color sat, sharpen, save for Web.
Statistics
Place: 19 out of 481 Avg (all users): 6.5897 Avg (commenters): 8.0000 Avg (participants): 6.5225 Avg (non-participants): 6.7556 Views since voting: 1964 Views during voting: 257 Votes: 156 Comments: 15 Favorites: 5 (view)
Wow! You know, I was in this challenge for a charity purpose. But I didn't vote nor did I even look through the images. Congrats on your finish - Top 20 in a Free Study! Impressive! I love the image. Extremely well composed and extremely well balanced - color/neutral; sharp/not sharp. Well done Jimmy! You nailed it! This is a 'print' I want.
I have not seen something so nice for a long time. This is great work and a great photo and place. I did not vote on this but this should be in the front page.
nice shot, feels like a piece of art. The compositions feels a little off for me but i'm not sure why, think I would prefer a tighter crop to bring the white hut further into the frame. lovely colours and a nice softness to the shot