I like the idea, but for my taste the foreground is too dark.

@ Bastian: Well, it was almost dark. Of course, I can do some HDR-like pp but then it won't be straight-from-cam, isn't it? :)

It almost makes me feel like the left fork of the river is evil and the right fork is good, based off of the lighting. I don't see any problems with this picture, as the darkness gives it a nice realistic feel to it.

the composition is good, and i like the scene itself, although the horizon is a bit skewed. although since it's a straight from cam photo, i think it's a pretty good shot. thanks for sharing.

Nice shot Tamara. Typical Dutch! And indeed "straight from cam". Try to "HDR" it a bit and submit it again to the "HDR" pool ;)

Good work!

When I first saw this picture as a thumbnail, I was drawn to it because of the beautiful colors. I was also almost positive that it was an HDR of some sorts, but I love how the darkness on the left where the photographer is draws you towards the light, where the photographer's picture would be. I absolutely love it!

Excellent one ! Especially for the sky...

nice sky, and nice contrasts, but i think that the other photographer is a bit disturbing...

Great shot. Lovely sky and the you did well with lighting up the foreground. I think the photographer is nice. I like inclusion of people. He could've been a little bigger though.

Nice repetition here!

I too agree that the person adds to the shot, rather than taking away. It places the shot in the real world, and give it perspective. Otherwise, it could have been a model...

A real Escher capture in the real world !
Incredible !

¡¡¡Enhorabuena!!!!, he visto esta foto en la portada que Canon tiene para enviar sus noticias ("You connect").

Hey, I got this advertisement from Canon today. And they used your shot! I thought I had recently critiqued it here. Congrats!!

Great shot. I like the fading passers-by as much as the double phone boots. Great effect of the partial saturation.

One of the rare occasions where I like selective saturation - but I think it would have been better if you had pulled back a little on the red. It's a bit too bright red imo. But all in all it's a good picture...

Thank you Huubi and Stefan
/Jan :-)

It's a pity those are being removed.

I really like the selective saturation. Normally I don't care for it, but it appears more natural in this image. Great exposure.

This was a great moment to capture but the bumblebee is not that sharp and the blurry flower in the left bottom corner is distracting. Also, the light looks flat. I've found recently that shooting at ISO 400 in bright sunlight gives good DOF and very short shutter time (1/250-1/500) which would help. This looks like an overcast day: not enough light.

I agree with Soreks. It's a nice natural composition, which could have been better with the OOF blue flower out of the background. Nevertheless, with a wing beat frequency of around 150/sec, I think the bumblebee's wings would be difficult to get really sharp.

I like this image a lot. NIce color and contrast and the bee is well-positioned. Not an easy thing to do because they move so fast. well done.

+composition
it's very nice

-focus
nothing seems to be really in focus to me

Nice capture Jeff, I wonder if you cropped this to pano, or shot it this way. I ask, because the building and the rainbow being cutoff as they are feels restricted or awkward to me.

@ Beamer: A little of both. There was a lanai floor directly above me when I shot this, so I had an obstructed view of the building. I also cropped it a bit to eliminate the lanai floor. I agree that it is not the best presentation. In a later version I photoshopped the other half of the rainbow, which helps a bit with the awkwardness. (alohaphoto.my-expressions.com/archives/1472_171132...)

Nice light here! I agree with Clyde. Not much to be done about the cropped building an rainbow, but it degrades the photo a bit. BTW, I looked at the PS-ed rainbow version and knowing that it wasn't there makes this one the better one for me.

Greatly seen and good coposition. Rainbow in an urban setting looks nice. Could be a little more sharp though.

Congratulation on the feature.

Detail of Kenzo Tange's Fuji TV building from the platform of Odaiba monorail station with ferries wheel reflected on a side wall in Rainbow Island, Tokyo

Very interesting view! Great colors too!

Dunk je wel HuubL!

Ik ben tevreden om je te vind m'n foto goed.

I hope I didn't misspell too much. My dutch is a little rusty

you must have worked a long time to get the clouds cloned like that, but it's a great result.

I'm pretty sure this image is straight, it may not feel like it and I understand that may be more important. The spirit levels on my tripod head were level and straight. The houses have straight verticals and the bit of brighter beach that you can see near the left edge of the shot is straight. I will check the hi-res again tonight. Thanks all for the comments.

Nice golden glow. I like the arc of the water and the reflection.

beautiful. the only word i can use....

Very nice color.

Yours in featured too! I love the light effect.

Really like the vanishing point here.
Always good to see the road less traveled.

ah frost...one of my favorites. really like this shot

@Amy, no, not frost...? Temps in the mid 50's on Sunday in the southern Mojave Desert... Very glad you like it though, thanks for the time to comment.

Amazing photograph! There really isn't anything I can criticize in this image.

LOL! Frost! I had a little sunstroke at the end of the day I visited Joshua Tree. Next days I was more carefull.

Anyway... beautiful photo.

Good capture! The only critiques I'd suggest are the overcast skies in the upper left corner and half-cut H in the bottom; tighter crop on the left would help it. I like how square crop works here.

The funny thing is I originally had it cropped a bit more to almost entirely get rid of the H on the license plate--and I am not entirely sure why I reverted back. (I think part of it was just wanting to give the "winged lady" on the hood a bit of breathing room on the left side.)

Great shot. I guess you applied some desaturation here. It certainly goes well with the weather. This square crop works well indeed.

the cropping is perfect
i love the rain
the car seems like its almost overexposed but not...
just right.