Very Nice, love the colors in this.

works for this theme.

i would've like it if the subject was more in focus.

Nice colours, but compositionally I think could be improved. Maybe a closer, tighter crop, maybe at an angle. Sharper would be good too.

A nice plant macro with some fine colours - love that pink and purple against the green.

Good to see such an unlikely interpretation of the topic.

Cool. I like this wonderful perspective, although I'm not sure it conveys solitude to me.

Just kidding, it's great.

Personally I'm not into the Photoshop treatment, particularly as it makes the figure look less sharp or unfocussed. Neither do I like the black bands (eek - I'm sounding really negative).

On the whole though this is very nice photo – I love the composition and view point, and the contast between the textures of the surf, the sand (light and dark) and the foreground vegetation.

What a lovely gentle green.

That's just rad.

nice.

Interesting. Not sure yet exactly what I'm looking at, but it's a strong image. I like the impact and framing

This is beautiful. It would go great in the Minimalism theme as well. Love all that blue.

Thanks for the compliment. I thought of putting it in Minimalism as well but can one submit to more than one categories?

There are no rules against cross posting the same image. There are some folks who don't like it, particularly if an image has already been featured in a different topic. But I would say that with the growing number of topics and thousands of photographs, you should feel comfortable posting it any topic that you feel it fits. Nice image, by the way!

Thanks for the clarification and compliment.

Nice.... Where in the world was this taken? Seems wonderfully cold and inhospitable. ;)

Just a little alcove off a residential street in downtown Albany, NY...funny I drove past it a few weeks ago and it seemed so uninteresting...the light really brought it to life.

Yeah... that light is just great.

Ewww.....this is terrific. Well done, Bob.

hehe, this was the placeholder of the "spotlight" at the photoblog magazine for weeks and weeks :-)))

congrats, bob!

This is terrific. It has that quality that makes you take notice and remember the image. Terrific light and colors.

great capture!

I would've liked it more if the origin of the fumes wasn't EXACTLY at the bottom left corner .. just a little bit off. But that's just me :)

I agree with the rest.
Should be feature, the crop(with fumes dead on the corner) does make it seem a bit contrived. That said perfect geometrical symetry and balance does make for a certain artistic statement that shouldn't be ignored.

Thank you, All!

Brilliant.. Really like this!

wooooow ... great shot. well done. did you post processing the cloud? how could you do that?