I'm not a big fan of having photographs fliped,... IMHO I think that it would have worked better if you had both, the original, and the reflection on one image!

I think maybe an idea that would solve both my thought about the bottom of the image and also Chris's distaste for fliped photos... Crop it just a bit from the bottom to lessen the feeling of the photo being upside down, and lighten it off so it fades to white...I'd add a dark gradient overlay on the top left to add to the effect and I bet it'd look ridiculously cool. Maybe some extra saturation in those colors on the cranes too...play around. Nice photo!

I like the liquid feel of this photo. The lines of the crane at the top of the photo are just wonderful.

Really great reflection....could almost be abstract.

Love how it looks like a painting in the thumbnail preview.

this is me, testing comments...nah, just kidding.
Seriously, this is a great shot. Very Blade Runner!

Heh... thanks for the comments everyone.

Cheers.

test

Wonderful !
Love the ambiance, the texture, the frame... everything !

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amazing

bravo

I've been wanting to ask... What is this? Heh.

It looks like you were really close to it when you took the photo, but you have no reflection... so I'm confused. (I enjoy being confused... that's a compliment.)

This was taken at the Moma in NYC. You probably don't see my reflection because the sirface is concave and the bottles were behind a reflective glass.

ahhhhh, I see how it is now... it just looked so awesomely CG before, but it all makes sense. what a fantastic work of art. most excellent photo.

Oh my!
Wow. :)

Really nice.

That reflective box has made agood job hidin yo from the scene.

Congratulations.

I like a crop line that drops vertically right between the gap in the bands of light on the stone, and cuts across between his hand and that major fold corner of his robe. There's also this strange blue that seems stronger around him, and more grey the farther it goes back. Not sure what I think about that, but it's cool. Is the top of his head missing some saturation? just looking with piercing eyes, poking holes, sorry. ;) Lovely photo, I also spent a good time looking at it peacefully.

very nice photograph, a little more contrast would do it for me.

I appreciate all the time everyone has taken to critique the image. thank you.

I really like this picture, but I agree with brandon that the hand and stones (?) in the back ground are a bit distracting. A tighter crop maybe, but the orange and face are great.

I disagree with jsmanseau. I find that the stones add value to the composition and so does the hand.
A bit more room over his head and a bit less of it on the left would have been my preferences, but that's an invalid format I guess. :)

woot!

Love those eyes, superb portrait!!

The skin tone matches the eyes so well. Is that a bike wheel she is looking through?

@chase
yes :-)

@all
thank you for your feedback and vote :-)

EX-CEL-LENT ! And the idea of shooting this portrait throught a bicycle wheel is pure genious. One of my fav, undoubtedly. Congratulations, Vernon.

Beautiful picture..reminds me of those old magazine pictures back in the day.

I absolutely love this style...a closeup of some exciting moment in the face of someone beautiful.
tones, reflections, expressions, wonderful.

beautiful. reminds me of sophia loren...

Nice atmosphere, great light!
Almost looks tilt-shifted / miniature ...

how happy you must have been to get that red roof in the photo, to have the mist only in the back, and then to have the sunlight in the foreground!

Either you must be really lucky or you camped there till you got this great light!

Either way, congratulations!

Wow, so crisp you can feel the frost, excellent capture! Almost feels like a model...

This image is just only sublime -

I love the sharpness & feeling you captured. It's hard to relate the grade of slope in a photo without a vertical reference but you've pulled it off nicely. Everything about it makes it a favorite for me.

awwwesome.... I tend to turn my head to look at it though, maybe a more natural gravity obeying angle would make it even more trippy? I dig, nice concept.

Very nice effect! Amazing shot!

Fantastic

Wow this is extremely creative!

ahahahaha, i dont understand how you did this at all.. somehow I think it was an illusion that this light was coming from the can..

Incredible.

WOW! icredible...

No star trails, Amazing. iso 1600 wow, very crisp.

Wow amazing how many stars you can see without light polution of big cities

O.O

as mentioned before.. UNREAL..

This is stunning!

magic. the window pane was pretty clean huh? Great shot

Surreal!

Thank you for the comments and the feature :-)

Truly an amazing shot. Thanks for sharing.