Wonderful idea and execution.
I agree that this reminds me that these days are coming soon!

Very lovely - the composition is wonderful and the lines look to participating in a ballet together.
This almost looks like powdered sugar...

it reminds me to one images i took some years ago.
but nevertheless a nice one.
my one you'll find here:
taikrixel.net/daily/index.php?showimage=92

How wonderfully mundane and yet so unique. This is classic and quite printworthy. I'd be proud of this one

good one!

Another great shot! I agree with the cropping, opens a lot of visual possibilities and lets my imagination run! This is a freakishly cool plant I take it! I still think it looks like body art - this one looking more like a series of teeth trying to eat something!

I like it a lot. I wonder if it would have been possible to remove the lightness near the top.

I like it very much, for the same reasons already said above, good shot !
Rather than a critique, just a suggestion : I wonder whether you could not have shut a bit more, in order to have the leaves sharper in the foreground.

Beautiful contrasts...lovely pic. I saw the color version in your site, loved it even more :)

Yep, the color one is better.

Great moment captured.

The scenery is great: black/white contrasts, waterscape, and mountains. I'm not sure about skies, they a just a white area.

As for the human presence, it looks to an extent disproportional to the scenery. I think cropping everything above water, like this would add impact.

don't fall in!

I agree with soreks (Fedor Soreks) regarding the sky. Choosing to keep it, you could have burned it a bit to get some detail there. Better yet, cropping as soreks mentioned would enhance the overall look of the photo, adding great impact on the subject.

very incredible photo.
wow!

I love the colors in the picture. Very nice.

How did you do it?

thx for your comments.

@ Ca-va-seul (Lopachin) & pedrorueda
i did not do much postprocessing. it's a HDR image made of 3 images just to get the right exposure for the sky. the rest is playing with the curves and reducing the colour saturation with the gradient map and try to match the colours with selective color.
thats it:)

Just amazing!

magic shot or postprocessing...

Interesting shot, but very unnatural, in my opinion.

Best,
Jon

Very nice execution. Like it b/w.
I would clone out the blck dots on the upper petel.

I really wish the tip of the pedal wasn't so blown out, maybe burn it back in PS a little. Nice DoF, I like the imperfection on the pedals, makes it look more real.

I see what your talking about with the blown out portion...never noticed that before. This is an OLD OLD photo of mine...from when I first started shooting. It's from my Canon EOS Elan 7e, so it's film. I'm not exactly sure how to do the proper editing in PS without getting the super grain film gives me when it's scanned in.

j'aime beaucoup la partie grise mais le blanc est vraiment trop brulé

I like your use of space, but it's a little overexposed, I think. Nice composition!

Best,
Jon

Nice backdrop and lighting. Very clever subject.

LOL! Great catch! Wonderful lighting!!!

Very nice colours!

Awesome shot. Perfect timing! Clear & vivid.

Wow - instant fave!

Best,
Jon

Thank you boyd. The sky was bright blue, totally contrasting with the dark surrounding, I measured the exposition on a neutral grey before shooting.

You have a good eye... The idea is great. I agree with previous posts that the dark area on the top does not make any justice to the image. I would try either crop it tighter to the grass in water or, maybe, covert to black in white.

Very cool reflection with amazing clarity......nicely done!

nice i like its low colors and high contrasts, like a bleach bypass pic

Very interesting shot - I would like to see it as a black and white - great contrasty possibilities.

Best,
Jon

THis is beautiful! It would be a great stock image! The color is beautiful!

I adore this yellow flower on this green and yellow. Beautiful composition, with the detail of the flower which is encrusted on our principal subject. Beautiful photograph. Greetings.

Wonderful composition.
Great details and awesome DOF!

Everything here works, the colors are wonderful and the framing of the flower slightly out of the shot adds to its interest!

Outstanding work! Thanks for sharing - great comp. and great color.

Best,
Jon

I like this photo for the lighting, DOF, the moment & expression of the boy playing, however I would have liked the crop to be more open showing more space above the boys head and not cropping the bottom of the acordian. It would have made the picture pop more.

I agree, the capture is nice enough, just feels too tightly framed/cropped. Showing the context of the street/sidewalk would add more interest.

Lovely subject... well captured. Great exposure. Agreed that cropping is not making justice to the photo.

The framing seems off to me too. Perhaps it would have worked better square or vertical.

p.s. I used to have that exact accordion. It must be a relatively common model.

Getting past cropping issues - great joy is communicated here - well done!

Best,
Jon

Nice shot, but I think I would like it even better if you hadn't cut the bottom. Perhaps with a little bit wider angle, leaving a narrow border in front of the animal.

This is nice because you don't usually see an animal like that in such a coastal shot. I don't mind that he's in the lower right corner.

the see looks strange, like taken with bad quality and and small size, then tried to make it bigger...

to paddlepunk: it is one picture, no montage... maybe bacause the see is out of focus or jpg comression on small preview?

Nice shot! Good subject - nice colors and interesting crop.
Best,
Jon