Love the expression. Looks like he's never seen that much money before!

Thanks Heath, yup it seems like he owns the world, doesn't it?

Amazing photo. Thanks for sharing.

wow

Wow what a shot just love it:)

Fantastic. Great moment!!

Great...

I just couldn't resisted, this photo wasn't edited on Photoshop or anything like this (other than a tiny crop for the sides), it was left just the way it was taken.

This would have been more effective if you cloned out her shadow.

In some ways I like the subtle colours of the sunset, but overall I think this image is a little too dull. I think losing approximately half the sky and making this a panorama might help.

And the horizon is tilted just enough to bother me.

I think a vertical crop with half of the foreground, and with the dark clouds in the sides removed will work. Love the colors and the sky, i would hate to see it cropped. And yeah, as Heath said, a panorama will work too :)

Tim,

Good effort overall, I think. Colors and light are good - comp, as mentioned, could be stronger. Keep the submissions coming!

Best,
Jon

I agree to an extent with the compositional comments above. However I like the emptiness, because for me it suggests a story about a usually busy beach waking up in the morning. You have captured enough detail in the sand to suggest lots of footprints (?) and the very subtle colours leading to blue sky work for me quite well.

Thanks!

Great idea. Felicitation

Was only a matter of time until that hit the front page. Great idea, Thelma.

Suprise,suprise...thanks everyone! :)

Fantastic blues and reds. Great image.

Definitely prefer this over your other drag shot. This one is much more effective at catching the sense of speed, wheras the other one seems more about the heat and the atmosphere.

Clyde,

Nice capture and great use of horizontals! I actually prefer the other shot - it communicates more to the viewer, in my opinion.

Best,
Jon

@Heath, I like this one better too. Interesting difference, here the car is actually warming up the tires by deliberately spinning them causing the smoke. He is only moving 50 or 60mph. In the other shot, they are down the track 2/3 of the quarter mile and probably traveling close to 300mph!!
Here I purposely shot for motion blur by shooting in shutter priority with a very low shutter speed 1/15. Probably too low but I was experimenting to get the effect. This image is pretty well overexposed. I was able to pull this out in the raw converter.

I like the feeling of power and motion. Nice!

It must be extremely difficult to photograph drag cars (insanely fast!). Considering this I think you have a great capture here. I wish the body of the car itself was a bit less blurry, but that would likely be difficult to achieve without a monopod or something (which can be difficult to smuggle into a track without a media pass :) ) All in all, a great capture.

Regards,
Jordan

Using an intervalometer, I shot 340 frames (8 sec | F/2.8 | 800 ISO | 16mm) with a Canon 5D over a 4-hour period. I stacked the exposures through a nifty piece of software called Startrails. The tree was lit briefly by cars leaving the area in the middle of the night resulting in this rather surreal composition.

interesting composing of all the images. cool one!

A lot of patience too!
Great work!

I'm not the creative!! Amazing photo!!! I would love a tutorial on this!!

Beautiful and a little dizzying if you look too long. :-)

a 5 seconds exposure, ferry calais-dover, approaching dover.

Vernon - I like how you've even blurred your little logo! :))

lots of movement, but I think the red lines detract from the nice simplicity of the shot.

This is really beautiful. Like a painting.

@daniel
"redlight district" of dover :-))))

@all
thanks for you feedback and the feature.
very much appreciated.

:-)

This is Berta

This is awesome.

Hi Berta! I would never cross this chicken. :)

just BEAUTIFUL!!!

This is crystal clear, awesome! Looks like the scariest chicken I've ever seen! Color is fabulous!

Excellent !!! What a beautiful curve ! The cloudy sky is perfect as a background. Great one !

That likes a spinal column, very impressive. When I see your exifs (focal 18mm) I ask for myself the context of your catch of sight. Good shotting. Greetings.

Thanks guys.
Eric - not sure if this is what you mean by 'the context of your catch of sight'? But basically, I just wandered around beneath this roller coaster (The Corkscrew at Australia's Sea World) looking for the widest span of track that I could find without any support columns or other background intrusions.