Really wonderful picture. The post processing does give it the extra color and dreamy style it needed.

You have done an excellent job of making this place in the forest look really creepy... but in a very cool way. Nice and magical!

I like the composition of this picture. You had the sunlight appearing in between the trees and an 'entrance' like scene in a colourful world.

Nice photo. The forest is founderful. New Zeland :)

Looks like you were a member of the crew from LotR of Harry Potter. ;)

I have nothing to add to the compliments already given. It's just amazing!

very nice, the only change would be the background which is very active and distracts from the subject.

i agree...background is a little distracting

Thank you for all the comments and critiques, and for my first Feature. :-D I was pleasantly surprised at how this one turned out. I took bunches of shots with different lightings and backgrounds. It's a clear glass bowl with clear clean water. The colour of this photos is not altered or enhanced. The sparkles are natural as well, air bubbles on the sides of the bowl. :-)

I love it! Perfect :-)

I gree, stunnig. Worthy of using for something like an advertisement of CD. Very nice. Great clarity.

Phenominal angle!! I love this!!

Thank you very much to everybody !!!

Belissimo!

Amazing!

Thank you Ricardo and Philip and to those who voted for this shot

Thanks Andrei, I went for that slighly different angle, I could see what other people were taking and tried to mix it up a bit :)

Excellent. You definitely have a unique view.

Also Barcelona, isn't it? ;-)

Wonderful image!!! crop is perfect!

Thanks Stephanie.

beautiful image. the tones and the blur made a dreamy image.

beautiful colours and scene! it certainly fits the theme, both literally and symbolically ...

camera shake is noticeable but adds so much to the image. don't change a thing! it's perfect!

this is a unique blue i like it a lot! the beach and the boat are crisp and the natural blur makes for a smooth backdrop. i like how the sun is over the edge of the horizon enough to be visible but not enough to overcome the photo, it fits nice for the blue topic :)

this pic is cool, i like this gaussian blur^^ i allways like gaussian blur^^

Thanks for the help, I might go back and try to shoot it again. Seems like I was not to off on thinking it was a good compsition.
I was just using a little crapy Olympus that I carry around for times when I see something I want to record.

can you use ISO parameters?,I don't know if that model allows you to do it but if it does, maybe with a little less of ISO it would be sharper as Sher said, maybe with a 200 or even 100 it would be perfect for the shot

I agree with others, and also think that the photo seems to be cut off at the edges. Just a little bit on the sides would add more depth.

It's kinda funky but I like it...reminds of a holga or pinhole image

great idea, even the bit not sharp focus works in this case well

I love the warm color, the contrast its very nice.

The focus seems a bit soft, although that contributes to the romance of the image. (And I am nit picking, but it seems like there is some sensor dust and a line in the upper right corner that could be cropped out). Still, the photo has a lot of appeal because of the warm tones and the romance of the shutters.

i love the texture of the wall & the tonality of the light, but i agree with the above comments about the focus

The above comment state it well.
The coloring on this is wonderful.
From the thumbnail it looks almost like a fire.

I like the coloring. The photo is like a painting

The building i dint notice! haha awesome!

Did you go back and shoot this location friday?! :)

i love the perspective that you've got on this one. just find the structure outside a bit busy for the rest of the frame...it's a nice contrast maybe, but for me it detracts from the abstract quality of the stairs and the feet.

Stunning composition. Very nice and smooth b&w.

this is great, awesome subject

An interesting photo. I would maybe play with curves in photoshop a bit more to bring out the various textures in the image.

Terrific perspective on this shot. The curve of the stairs leads the eye through the frame. I do think the exposure is slightly off as the highlights are too bright. I think this could easily be fixed though as it's not too bad. If you work with Photoshop try using the shadow/highlight adjustment tool. Or if you shoot in Raw, adjust the exposure in raw processing so the highlights are correct, and then use curves to open up the shadows. In either case, with a bit of adjustments this would be a really terrific shot. Great textures in the stone work.

I agree, you can adjust the highlights and brightness to make this more interesting.

I agree with the above critiques. There is a 'wear' of time to these stairs that is unique and makes this photo good, but has potential to be awesome.

one more time the vignetting, I would liked it more without it.
Now I'm going to see the retouched one.

I much prefer your original here over the retouched image. The darkness adds mood and the shading of the sky is wonderful. Nice work!

I prefer this one to the other-interesting looking place!

This one is better than the retouched I think. Although the sky is very pretty, it's not as prominent as the land features which are really great in silhouette. At any rate it's a very nice image.

I prefer this too. Good composition, capture of the light.