There is nothing to add. Amazing! Great sky. Wonderful mountains, roads and builings. Super!

Well, Done.

It's BEAUTIFUL!!!

guau!!!! God is coming to this photo!!!

absolutely beautiful and breathtaking!

Interesting signage and nice contrast. I love the smooth signage and the colouration on the bricks.

Cheers!

Thanks!

that helvitica!!!

Stunning, I love the lens flare and the feeling of a relaxed summer day on the road.

I like it too! Somebody doesn't like...

Great Photo, the viewer can feel the emotion of the image!

Gorgeous, what an amazing exposure.

Thank you, bdarfler for your comment. I appreciate it very much.

I love these pictures. Try speeding up your shutter in stages and you'll have patterns emerge from the motion... kind of fun to play with.

Thank you, anemix for the information. I did try different exposure times. This just seemed the best image that I captured that night. It does give me something to try again.

The color treatment is amazingly perfect.

excellent composition, I feel like a voyer at an amphibian shower...

Thanks!

It's ideal!

Thanks!

Really nice capture and conversion to B&W. I like the way this shot shows the light and dark exposed within the night before the viewer. The more one looks the more detail one sees in the dark portions. Nice work.

Do you mind sharing what camera and lens you used, EXIF data, etc. I always like to compare equipment used. Thanks for sharing this one.

Thanks for the comment. The EXIF is as follows:

Camera: Canon PowerShot S2IS (maybe I didn't need to drop $$ on a 40D ;-))
Exposure: 15s
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 6.9mm (No clue what that really means)

Beautiful job of getting the leaf and butterfly in focus. I agree with Jeff though that opening up even more to really throw the background out of focus would might add to the separation between the main subject and the background as well as simplifying the photo by smoothing out some of the extra elements that are competing for attention in the background. I also like the leaf coming in from the bottom right corner and moving along the bottom third. I have been just roughly playing with different crops on this photo (covering parts with my hand on the screen) and I really do like the butterfly dead center. Its harder to say but cropping up from the bottom to really put the leaf in the corner might be effective. Overall a nice shot, simplifying and separating the background would really bring it together.

A tighter DoF would help this a lot. It would push the background back in importance. Dodging the background a bit would help too. Looks like you may have used a diffused flash?? A wider aperture and faster shutter speed might have allowed you to use exiting light too.

I generally agree with the above comments about dof etc, but I really like the framing you have used to position the subject dead centre with plenty of space around. Great work.

Thank you for your comments! I used your feedback and did some pp, here is the result: www.vazaar.com/user:sfkp/photos/id:31869/

great detail on the butterfly! very pretty

I like the composition and the story being told here. Its very calming, reminds me of a lazy summer afternoon in the shade. I also like how the trees really help to frame the person and keep the eye coming back to that central idea. The thing that really stands out to me is the rocks in the lower right. While in some ways they mimic the person I find them too strong of a secondary idea and ends up competing for my attention. At first I actually thought it was the head of another person that was carelessly left in the frame. It would be nice to see if they could be cloned out or if the image could be cropped up from the bottom, though that could skew the nice composition of the person on the bottom third. Alternatively, adding a bit more rock might also work (though I like this idea less). I think part of issue is that they hint at more and keep pulling my eye out of the photo, like I want to figure out what is going on over there. More could have mitigated that. Over all though a very nice photo.

I'm not bothered by the rocks. I do think for this subject the camera angle is a little too low. I think you would have more impact if we saw a little more of the homeless man and his "bed." The higher angle would BTW, probably eliminate the rocks from the shot.

i do like the shot in general... i would remove the rocks and the top does seem very busy... as beamer suggested, a higher angle may have been more appropriate...or better still (and this is more difficult) getting closer to the mean but still keeping a low (or even lower) angle

I think this is a good shot, but i think the rocks take away from the main subject.