very bright and colourful.

I like it too.
As Ryan asked, I also wish you could give some explanations.

Thanks for your comments.
It is a HDR image obtained from a raw file.
The scene was very contrasted, so I obtained various images with diferent expositions to give detail in lights and shadows. I mixed them increasing micro contrast and I got it.

Exelent HDR. My congratulations with feature ;)

I'm gonna be different here. I still cannot get myself to like these "obvious" HDR images. I have seen some very tasteful stuff done with HDR, but this to me just looks bizarre! Sorry, but honest...

Beautiful!

Will,

Congrats. Great image.

Interresting motive, but i would try to crop out the trees.

Amazing.
I wouldn´t crop the trees.

Well captured...

I am not a big fan of HDR either but I have to say this one is really nice, wonderful sky colour and the garden is exposed perfectly, great job!

Thanks all again for your comments.

I'm trying to use HDR more subtlely, just to get some details and improve colors. For your comments, I think I'm on the way.

Sí, Ana, es Granada. Se trata del Patio de la Acequia, en el Generalife (Alhambra). Es curioso, no me había fijado en las ramas y me lo ha dicho bastante gente. Tomo nota :)

Beamer, great to see you again. I've noticed the tilting but I think it's more a combitation of tilting, lens aberration and perspective, since I can't make it look 100% straight.

really well done architecture shot. your hdr-processing works well done!

The sky reminds me of a really bad dream I had last year. Everything else seems flat.

My guess is the tilt is because the camera was not level. If you were going for the nightmare effect the tilt helps.

the clouds rock! very foreboding yet beautiful.

I really like the color & depth of this photo. Great composition!

I like colors too. Great out of focus.

Congrats

Excellent photography. Wonderful color, excelent detail and perfect depth of field.

Again, the focus and depth and lack-there-of make this outstanding, and stand out. Love it!

hah nice.

Wonderful! Very dramatic.

vu dans "featured"
Félicitations !
une image magnifique !!!
Shine on

Impresionante.
Muy buena.
Me encanta :)

Fantastic art! Love the imagination here!

Hola Ana

Me encantan tus fotos. En especial las macro y las de cosas viejas, que es también uno de mis temas favoritos.

Un saludo

Gracias Javier, es muy agradable tu intervención, me alegro de que te guste mi trabajo. Disfruto mucho fotografiando y desde que lo hago veo todo distinto. Lo que antes pasaba desapercibido ahora es una joyita por descubrir, luego os muestro el resultado.....
Hasta pronto.

I have another picture that is exactly the same except it has the sun halfway below the horizon...any suggestion on which would be better?

post that one too :)

Great orange colour, refection of the sun on the clouds is great as well!!

Andy

I think it would be a better idea not putting the sun in the middle. I see the horizon fine, but the sun would be better on the right or on the left.

Remember the rule of the thirds.

Javi

Mi humilde opinión es que las columnas no enriquecen la toma. El colorido de las flores aporta vigor y alegría, siempre agradecida.
Saludos

I like this photo. The blurred flowers in the foreground send my eyes immediately to the posts and help establish depth in the picture. Having said that, the posts are only mildly interesting in and of themselves. I think this photo would be improved if there was some additional point of interest located next to the posts...perhaps a young girl reaching down to pick one of the flowers, or an old gardener leaning on a rake. The photo is fine as is, just able to be so much more. By the way, I like the colors in this garden. I bet it's a nice place to visit.

Thank you both for your comments.
Jeff, I agree with you about the photo needing another subject. I originally took this photograph because of the shadows.

I am not so sure that this does need anything else. I agree that the colours and the sense of depth are very well composed here. Perhaps the only thing that I seem to stumble across is the post lined up with the tree trunk, maybe a step or two to the right would have allowed the tree to shine beyond the posts.

when I see the photo, it seems that columns are the main subject. There are more interesting elements in the image but they are out of focus (flowers) or they are very poorly contrasted (tree), so you look at the columns again at the end. And columns aren't interesting...

Sorry, that's my opinion :)

The EXIF are: ISO1250, f/3.5 and 1/30s. without tripod, so the original picture was really noisy and dark. It was taken really late at the afternoon. I had to use an aggressive treatment to reduce noise, that's why the focus is too soft.

Thanks for your comments! :D

I think the composition is perfect.
I like a lot.

Here's something to think about.

Start with the original image and convert it to B&W. You can use much less the noise reduction and retain most of the originals' detail.

I agree with the idea of going B&W and maybe upping the contrast some. Great composition and a like the hint of a smile on his face.

Nice shot - very pretty lighting and super composition.

Best,
Jon

I like the composition - different, but effective. It pulls you up and into the photograph. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful and magnificient.
It makes you feel little :)

nice shot but the differents elements in the bottom of it are a bit disturbing perhaps crop a little

I like the composition.

I would have pushed the curve a little harder - more 's' shaped. Think about putting the steepest part of the 's' where you want the most contrast. It would also let you darken the dark areas (which might help address Geoffrey's concerns) and/or brighten the image a little.

Heavenly.