very nice shot, good work!

Hey Duncan so happy to see u here , well done my friend !!

Nice contrast with the run down pier and the beautiful view.Great shot.

Cheers Eric! Thanks to all for your comments, and to all those who rated.

Perhaps when Brandon offers the before/after features I will upload some other versions. You know when you get tired of looking at a photo? This is one of those for me :) Thanks for the kind comment though. Good to see that it is still getting views.

I have to agree with BioLarzen...;-) Excellent shot.

Wonderful!!! He looks unbelievably

Congrats on the feature Jamie. Well deserved.

This is a little too "warts an all" in terms of lighting. A little retouching wouldn't go amiss. It's a cheeky little image though, and is deserving of it's feature status.

A bit of lens correction on this to get the verticals straight and this would have been a cracking shot! Colours and tone are good.

Yeah, I couldn't quite get the lines straight. I'm still pretty happy with it, though. Thanks for your comments.

Very nice composition - well done!

Chris

Glad to see this on the feature page...certainly deserved it.

nice shot, I really like the angle it plays off the fence and snow well. I like it in b&w, I think it works better than it would in color. Well done!

This is such a great shot---one of my favs. I have nothing bad to say about it.

just lovely

Great light and shadow! Congratulations on the feature.

Magnificent shot! the graphics is very well realized. great light and lines
Colors are exceptional, congratulations!

thanks for the comment duncmc. much appreciated.

i assure you there is no photoshop magicwork on this image. i shot it with a 200mm f/4 nikkor macro at the widest aperture.

Very beautiful shoot !!!! Really. Splendid coloursn perfect flower...
And great lens ;)
(like my 60mm Nikkor !)

Lovely colors!!

Gotta love this photo. The colors are great and the focus is pretty much spot on.

Amazing colour!

Fantastic image. I love the efffect of the long exposure, the quality of light, color... just great. Kudos.

Whooaah – Featured! Thanks everyone. That came out of blue!

This is an excellent shot!!

I love the colors !

simply gorgeous. just the right softness and perspective - and vibrancy - all integrated.

I agree with the above. Seems to centered. I do like the exposure and colors.

Very nice capture, but I'd rather crop differently.

If you are going to keep the subject in the middle you might think of cropping the image as a horizontal panoramic. Just a thought.

Bbonner,
can you give an example? I am not entirely sure I know what you mean.
Thanks for the comments everyone. This is such a great site and all the criticisms really do help.

very nice long exposure-i think what bbonner is trying to say is to crop the open spaces on either side of the subject-which i tend to agree with. this shot is an awesome idea

The colors and composition of this are very nice. I especially love the colors. The blur is nice too, but I think I might have positioned it differently within the frame. I am assuming this was done with a Lensbaby or tilt-shift lens. I think with these lens the blur can be used to lead the eye into the frame, or to lead us to the subject.

In this image I think the blur should have lead our eye up the hill to the castle ruins; and would have been better positioned in the lower right corner. However, I still like this image because the colors are so very cheerful.

Lovely colors and interesting blur

Nice lensbaby action right there. I like how the castle is actually not in focus. The colors of the sky and flowers are very intense.

I should take out my little lensbaby for this topic!

Did you use the Lensbaby? The effect is very nice

Thanks for all the comments – this was taken with a Lensbaby Original.

I do like the colours, and I kinda liked the fact that there was no obvious subject, but I wasn't sure whether that worked. Opinion seems to be divided.

I like the detail of the veins in the leaf, but I agree that greater contrast would make the image more vibrant.

Thanks for the helpful feedback you guys, much appreciated. I know exactly what you are talking about, the contrast etc. I have to get a handle on that aspect yet, I'll learn.
Thanks again!
xoxo

I like the detail and overall composition of the image. I think that is done very well. Perhaps just a wee bit more contrast. I like the monochrome, if the color version had the leaf being one vibrant color and the background another, that would have been good too I think.

i agree with miniTotoro-and would love to see this in color-and this picture does not suck by any means

This is great. Well done