Agree with all above, very nice image. One little thing, crop off just a wee bit off the right to loose the edge of the tree that is just showing.

very nice framing. i love the play of shades in this photo.

I love it! Maybe you could crop some but just a little. in order to make it more exciting for me:)

Absolutely beautiful light. (But I'll agree with the others. Crop about 10 or 15 pixels off the right side. But that's just nitpicking.)

this is very mystical in some way i cant even explain...but its so alluring...
awesome shot!!

I later saw there is a discussion about the meaning of the term bokeh, I think it's better not to interact with that... my theoretical knowledge is little and I'll just read what there's already been said.

I don't have any idea. I thought it was focusing on an object with a shallow DOF, therefor the background is out of focus....

Hey, ladies, didn't you know I was just a trouble maker!! Bokeh is just a term to describe the "fuzzy" out-of-focus areas, usually in the background of a photograph. The whole discussion with mooch got a little over blown. He was trying to say that bokeh was ONLY present if there were circles (as in your image Ana) created when the lens rendered points of light or other high contrast details as shapes.

Truth is that all images with a DoF that leaves an area of the image out-of-focus have bokeh. The circles or hexagons created from a high contrast background are the characteristics that are usually referred to when judging the "quality" of the bokeh. Different shapes with different degrees of sharpness/softness are rendered depending on the shape of the blades of the aperture.

If you look at this page:

www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/662530/2

you will see that there are as many types of "fuzzy" areas, or bokeh are there are backgrounds behind the subjects.

well, the circles in that back of my shot are bits of light on an icy pond.

I didn't invite them
They just showed up.
Seriously.

And quite pleasing they are my lady!! You were lucky to have such lovely visitors.

Hey mooch, where are the circle shapes??? Not even a hexagon... Just those damn hearts!! mooch, this is a lovely image and, yes, it has a lovely bokeh. What lens did you use?

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!

Great use of light and shadow. Abstract and weird!! Nice job.

Very graphic and nice. I really like it. Don't really know what to say to improve.

Maybe even wider and shot further down from the ground and more diagnaly letting the lines speak rather than recognizing it right away as a building.

you sure like this scene, don't you?
It fits the topic, but otherwise, it doesn't do much to impress.
The building at the back is tilted, the scene is chopped off and parts of it are over-exposed. I keep wanting to tilt it this way or that.

But like I said. Fits the theme, but maybe because of the selective saturation.

I agree with Ana. The idea is good, but you has to work it out more (starting with changing the brand of the beer, ieuw ;)

Thanks for the comments. I did try and rotate the picture to set the horizon straight. However, to me, this took all the excitement out of it.
I was going for the "rhyme" between the green in the front and in the back.
And don't talk beer brands to me, dear, I rarely ever drink it. (more into wine and whiskey, me)

I've looked at this several times and really don't get much out of it. The tilt is very distracting and the selective saturation doesn't really help.

i love the colors, it sort of has an almost-grungy feel to it. I'd fix the horizon, though, if you're not planning to crop off the top portion.

The fence in the background is disturbing.
I don't like the color intensity, but that might just be me.

seems a bit too intense/bright, and I agree about taking that fencing out of the shot.

As Ana said, too intense process here. It give a natural subject a very un-natural feel.

taking the process even further may have helped take the viewer there and making no mistakes as to the effect you were going for as maybe not natural but really processed.

Eight shots.

respekt dass unser kleiner freund hier so geduldig war :D

cute little critter, he looks like he is about to ask you for a question! i like this

ps. i like the shallow depth of field

I appreciate the shot jus tfor how hard it must have been to make any of the head sharp considering how jittery this animal seems to be.

I presume it's a style you have to love or not, but it seems there was some movement and/or it's unfocused, I don't like that.
The look of the girl and the cropping is well choosen, imo.

I like the softness supported by the blur.

I love the eyes, hair, and expression. I wish the eyes were a bit sharper. The rest can be soft or blurry and it wouldn't matter. A slight tilt to the head may make the composition stronger. Nice image.

Very nice one. Not much to say here. I'm normally not a fan of borders but here might be a case for a small dark gray border. The top of the image blends totally with the Vazaar white and it seems to loose balance.

Would have been great to have some context even if it was in the form of a title or story such as a girl in a war torn country. my 2 cents.

Ha ha!! Another one from you walk on the bridge!! I would have waited just a bit to allow the sailboat to clear the cable a little more.

Hey this looks great! Only had the background had more detail and interest, this selective sturation would work better.

The coloration works very well, I only think the background's a little too busy, all them sailing boats.

If there would have been a very large sailboat inbetween the cables or some other interest would have helped or having very little background boats.