I agree with all of the above. I really like the vignette effect. Not easy to do on a Zone 5 or 6 sky without lots of clouds. Quiet inspiration.

Very Cool. I'm curious as to what a shot would look like if the tree was directly in front of the sun.

Way cool shot, Clyde. Great in every category listed.

great shot!
and amazing silhouette!
the tree almost looks like it belongs in a dr.seuss book
:]

Great silhouette and light. Love your choice of b&w :)

Hello Ana, Thank you for your opinion.
I agree about the position of the bird, but it was a quick catch! He was gone in an instant!

I believe I was using a 300mm, so the focus was all on the bird, and not the scene.
Thank you again.

Very beautiful and full of the wonder of the moment. I really like the framing and use of negative space. Nice work, in my opinion.

Jon

The feel of this shot is very striking, although you might wish for the bird to be postioned differently. I am hopeless at the ps thing, but I would be interesting to see the effect on the composition if you cut the bird and flip it 180 so that it is flying into, rather than out of frame (it looks relatively easy with such a stark background). Still, it is wonderful as is.

oh,yeah, it would be quite easy to flip the bird (ha ha ha)

:)

At first I thought, too much grey sky. But then I read Ana's comment (in as much as I understand Spanish). Held my hand in front of the bottom left for an instance, and suddenly the whole thing worked.
So, too bad about that patch of grass. But since birds don't wait until you get a nice frame on them, it's still a great picture.

a very abstract image. although it has impact, i would have a little more space around the subject - for it to 'breath'. very creative photo.

Thanks jKay, though its almost full frame no crop. What I think, if one keeps empty space for it to breathe it would be too much of white in an almost wite photo!

very interesting photo!
i love the simplicity yet effectiveness of the photo
great shot!

Simple but effective! Great idea!

Thanks ksenia, meyli!

this is amazing. truly.

Intense and beautiful atmosphere like often in your photographs. Greetings.

Thank you Eric!

absolutely beautiful

Looks like you had a really nice holiday with plenty of chances to make stunning pics! This one is powerfull!

Thanks Tamara! It was a great summer!

Terrific composition! I love the placement of the sun and the clouds. And the colors are powerful. Nice shot.

great colors, great birds, great clouds...very nice

Thank you so much Tamara, Jeff and Paul. It was a beautiful night...one of the last days of an awesome summer.

Another scan from the late 70's.

Clyde,

Lovely feel and work on this shot. The spacing of the gulls is great as is the exposure. Clyde, I was wondering if I might email you re: an interview I have on Monday with our local community college. My email is jon@jvgphoto.com

Thanks,
Jon

The tones that you have captured here are wonderful, Clyde. I agree with Jon that the gulls add greatly to the interest, and I love the dark water and shapes in the foreground. Go the 70's!

Perfect! I love how the water looks black, but the pier is even blacker. Nice job.

Atractivo y sugerente contraste. Enhorabuena. Saludos

bravo, pour cette ombre et cet effet.

Merci Olivier por su comentario, me alegro le haya gustado. Saludos

I like the graphic feel of this quite a bit. The silhouettes are very nice also. For critique, well, not much. Maybe don't cutoff the tip of the diamond shape at the top, show a little more of the ceiling. Maybe if you had moved a couple of inches to your right to try to center the point of the large white structure more in the middle between the 2 walking people.

Clyde, I agree with all you say.

I agree with Clyde that there is not much wrong with this shot at all. I like your exposure here to capture a great range of tones that sets off the graphic nature of the image beautifully. Well done.

I'm in agreement too. My first thought was, "great range of tones." I think you presented them well.

This is like the fifth time i have come back to this image. It keeps on drawing me in....