Wow Nick, this one is a killer. Wonder why no comments on this so far. Great job!

Hey Nick!
Awesome shot...the details and that red are just fantastic

Very nice image...and I think b&w would be a good choice too.

Reflection of the sky is great.

Nice ride. Not so fond of the reflections though. Probably just a personal thing :p

nice close crop and works well with the cloud reflection

Maybe some more sharpness but it's a great shot, also with the spectacular clouds included !

A great pet portrait.Great composition, and the lighting is well done

Nothing to mension, very adorable picture..

very well done...what a great model too

great capture. i'm shure it wasn't easy, right?!

What can I say.....:-)))) So funny ! And the expression is superb !

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough in my statement regarding the composite ~ only because it is such a wonderful once in a lifetime shot someone could. think it was a composite. I didn't mean to imply that I thought it was! :)

I myself captured some lightening this summer, tho not nearly as dramatic or beautiful; but a cool thing anyway.

If you're interested, you can see it here:
visualpeace.blogspot.com/2007/10/not-best-picture-...

Lightning photos are my favorite. I also try to capture it but have yet to be successful. I love the picture and hopefully one day I will submit one as great as yours.

It's strange way of thinking but the fact that this image could easily be a composite makes it less important than it should be. Eventhough it real and what you capture is very unique we have seen it so many times in fake images and thus a little bit of magic and power is lost.
Of course as everybody else I think it's a brilliant shot anyway

Great shot. Timing IS everything. Lonely country feel, awesome.

amazing shot,not much critique possible,
but if i were nitpicking,i'd wonder what this shot would look like if it were wider.

Great idea

Very cool :) Just one question - how did you take the picture - I can't see the shadow of the camera...?

Nicely done. Great idea.

@redcat77: I was waiting for someone to ask the question :)
I had the camera on a strap around my neck, a wide-angle lens and simply put it on timer.

this is very fun. love it and thanks for the smile.
:)

Looks like ice at the seashore. Could feel like a really cold scene, but the color balance of this image is so warm that you loose most of the "cold" feeling. I would also have cropped a little off the right to loose the bit of fence peeking in. Nice composition otherwise, well balanced.

Wonderful image and I agree with Beamer I would lose that bit of the fence. But a very different snow image indeed. Well done!

This is a beautiful shot and I too think the fence needs to go! It brings in a quality of the ordinary and mundane which doesn't help this shot at all. I would love to experience this one without the fence. Nice effort!

Best,
Jon

Extraordinary perspective--really nice work. I love what you have going on here...just super!

Beautiful photo. I agree that the white balance should be adjusted to go with the cold better. Maybe also B&W would work.

Nice shot !
Perhaps to 'border line' on the right side (the ring is croped) - I think it should have be better if more zoom out.

Cheers,

Guillaume

did not catch my eye on the front page, but up close it is really nicely detailed. love the color..

Great detail and DoF...love it before and love it again : )

Nice work - needs a little more breathing room on the bottom.

Best,
Jon

Really nice composition and details, needs room on the right and bottom though.

Alittle to oversaturated color. you start to see artifacts.
Would make a great painting.
What kind of camera did you shoot this with?

WOW what awesome colour and contrast. Nice job.

Gorgeous!

it's almost as if the sun was leaving a trial of fire behind it...amazing photo!

Just an amazing Photo Jen !! Keep the shutter clicken :)

Andy

Very nice...gives me a feel of the music!

This is just really great. The blur feels musical to me... fits perfectly.

Sweetness.

This is very good...I can hear the jazz. I love the musician's head, very surreal and abstract; it fits the genre of music.

Wonderful shot Toph! I've always enjoyed this photo.

This is such a nice photo - great comp. and great atmosphere. Truly, this is music to my eyes!

Best,
JOn

I love the bicycle...but it is a bit blurry, hard to see the lovely details it holds.

Sharpness cam be over rated. The blurriness works for me. What doesn't work is the blown out window. To fix this would require radically different lighting or multiple exposures. There seems to be a great deal of chromatic abberation. Perhaps this is intentional. I can't make up my mind as to whether this image is brlliant or mediocre. I always enjoy a good mystery!

thanks for the comments...took this on a tour of a castle that was more like a museum so I didn't really have much say in the lighting and such....but I like the old bike.

I think that the table poking through the wheel is distracting, and the placement of the wheel right in the middle of the frame is a bit bland. It is really hard to take pictures when your vantage point is chosen for you. I think you did a great job under the circumstances.

A little soft - just misses being a great shot!

Best,
Jon