How surreal! A great find, and a beautiful capture. I very much like your treatment in post. Nice tonal range. I would not personally have chosen these specific tones, but they work well for this image. Nice work.
Very very nice shot. It takes something for me to say this with so much processing on a scene like this. Would love to see the cloud more in the frame and not cut off the way it is here. 7
Wonderful composition and use of sepia... fits the subject and scene well.
Now... please bear with me... I'm revisiting a little comment experiment I conducted in the 2009-03 Free Study... something like K10DGuy's comments, but with a twist... the twist being, the story will move from one photo to another within the challenge... also, I don't select just a few photos I start at the first and end on the last as determined by DPC random order assigned to me, with a single sentence for each photo... should be interesting... and you're photo is first cab off the rank
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The storm final passed and the pounding waves left little of the seaside village that hundreds had once called home.