Wish I was going tomorrow - no, I'm stuck in sunny Central Florida...80 degrees the week before xmas. This isn't HDR - just worked with levels and then painted with a very low opacity brush, both black and white.

This is a great picture! I love the colours of it. Great job!

Old theme.

I love the greens and the tone of the stone.

I agree with Beamer. The foreground is a little overpowering. But it's a lovely shot nonetheless.

Nice idea, nicely done on the selective saturation. I wish the flower was better exposed. The background really fights for attention even with the desaturation. Maybe a little burning/vignette?? Maybe a tighter crop??

Maybe a bit of brightness on the flower and this would be perfect.

I like the off-center of this image. Very striking.

It snowed last night for the first time this season in Southern California. This is what I call my "backyard". This is a pano of the Mount Baldy area above Claremont, CA. This is about a 15 minute drive from my house.

its absolutely beautiful!!
itd be nice to have a "backyard" like this one..
lol
but great shot!

So pretty! I live near by in RC and love having the mountains right in my "backyard" as you say! This is a great picture! I love it. The colour of the sky is so nice and it's just so pretty! Good job!

Great panoramic image, perfect view!

Cool image. The trees seem to be waving at the UFO cloud.

It's a striking image. The clouds are definitely the highlight. (It's strange though that everything on the ground looks pretty sharp and well exposed, but the cloud and sky around have quite noticeable grain. Were you really pushing the processing in this part of the image to bring the cloud out more?)

@Jim: film grain, digital color capture converted to FP4+ profile in Nik's Silver Efex Pro. Glad you like it. This was taken early just after sunrise in Joshua Tree NP.

wow. cool one. the cloud looks like a starship or something different. i like it :)

Nice one! Would have been great if the cloud wasn't blurred, but I guess it was too dark for a "normal" exposure. Well Done!

One more from this past Saturday in Joshua Tree NP.

An 8 holed pinhole made of a popcorn tin. A panoramic(of sorts) of my classroom

A very abstract image for sure. Very cool technique, you should share more about the process and the "camera"!!

You're on to something here. Follow it!

Icy!

If I could marry your bokeh. I so totally would.

Can say enough about that Nikon 60mm Micro!! Same on that got me in trouble with mooch...

Mooch wants to marry your bokeh??

Yeah, this one he WOULD like!!

I really like the water flowing through the rocks. I feel as if I'm more than just a viewer of the photograph. It's as if I'm part of the image. I find the sun coming through the trees a bit distracting though. All in all, a nice photograph.

Very nice take on a common motif Tobias!! My only critique would be that the tonal range is a little bit flat. Maybe a little more work in curves?

Also I would like to see the shot wider to get more a sense of the creek snakeing through the frame.

i think the only thing i would critique..is the sun coming through the trees.
but other than that...
the composition is perfect..and its an overall beautiful shot!

Great shot! So beautiful! I love it!

Taken today in Joshua Tree NP, California. 2 nights ago there was a "once in a generation" snowfall. Local say it's been over 30 years since this much snow fell.

Beautiful. I really like the texture of the snow in the foreground,

OMG! A few months back I had a sunstroke in this area! I didn't expect this was possible! I hardly can't keep my eyes off of it, very beautiful indeed.

Thank you Tamara, really special time here in Southern California lately. Even up on the mountains behind my house LOT'S of snow!!

Beautiful soft tones - nice coloration. Did you crop the left side? I wish the little curly part of the flower hadn't been cut off

Bradford is right about the composition, it is badly off balance You really need some "breathing room" on the left. And maybe a little dodging and burning to pull out the middle of the flower a little better. This is oh so close to being REALLY good!! I love the DoF overall and the detail and texture in the upper right corner.

thank you for comments...
helps out ALOT..and i see the problems...

except i dont really understand the terms..."dodging and burning"

Can be done either in a darkroom or in software like Photoshop:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodging_and_burning

hmm.
ill def have to learn how to do that....
lol