thank you so much for your comment lindy ;)

Amazing very eye catchiing nice colours.

Lovely use of color. It also brings back memories of childhood fun.

Great palette. By which I mean; colours, naturally...

It reminds me of being little! I love it!

This is very nice panning work. For this theme, I think it would have been okay to let the bus show some movement, as well. Those crisp blues and reds would look nice as streaks across the frame.

Great panning! I love taking these kind of pictures. They take work to get it just right and you did a awesome job with this one.

Nice colors. I'd seen the bus left to right (unstead right to left) (except in England, sorry !)
Maybe in "stop the motion"

Really nice photo. The blur in the back is just enough. But it isn't distracting at all from the bus. I really like it!!!

Very well done! Great capture and very well seen.

Best,
Jon

needz to be cropped =)

The glare is what catches my eye first, then the shadows. Very nice photo otherwise, good catch.

quite a procession!

Very neat perspective, I agree that the glare is a bit distracting.... Nice photo!

The glare didn't bother me as much as it did the others. I really enjoy the shadows and how much they are alive in the capture. The lines from the ships mast and ropes are perfect for drawing your eyes down to the subject. Excellent.

Great work

Peaceful and evocative.

I love this kind of photography

Very nice work.

I knew this was you from the thumb nail....Great shot!

Thanks for your comments and criticismes

Perfect in this "Topic", nice frame as well.
Well done lol ;)

Thanks Eric !

I love the minimalist feel to this work.

I love the perspective of this photo.

I dont like the blury figure. It distracts me.

The personne is a little bit too blury.
It's not necessary to put a personne; this landscape and its photography are beautiful enough.

The blurry person could have it place here in response to the fog. But I think this picture would have been better without this guy.

Well, I like the blurry figure.

;o)

I don't if I'm the only one who have noticed that the persons right hand - in it's two main positions - sort of looks like a pair of eyes of creepy creature, witch is very small or is sitting down. It's awesome. And you gotta admit; that a creepy creature there is wearing snickers is a bit surreal.

Very pure color. Wonderful sky. The picture is beautiful whith or without the 2 small people.

The colours really set the scene here. I think the scene could have been improved if the person or people were stood on a higher part of the rock - they are tucked away a little and so lose a touch of impact in the scene.

thanks zenith9, i agree with your comment, but i had a problem..., I made it with a 70-300 objective, I didn't new those people, you know what i mean?, ;-).
thanks for the comment again.

Not sure about this one! When I look at it in my browser and see it only up to just above the people's heads, it actually then *does* look like a minimalist image. And you then have three bands of colour -- the two in the sky and the water, with the dark rock on the right acting *then* as the focal point. I would really like sort of image. :~)

since we now know that it is a candid capture, I can say nicely done.

Jolie, comme les autres :)

C'est la version retravaillée que tu présentes là. C'est propre et en grand format, cela rend super bien. Bravo !

Photoshopped.

very cool photo, love the colors!

Wow - just WOW! Great colors, lighting and composition. Amazing clarity too.

kamaki don't like skies and always missing sharp. look at his other comments. (just kidding) :-)))

ok, now my humble opinion:
for minimalism there are too many elements.
we start with the sky/clouds. 4 levels, 4 different shades, the mood changes from calm (light blue at the top) to a little furious (grey at the horizon)

the water: the small waves adds a lot of structure to the surface and this "kills" the rest of the minimalistics in this picture.
I could imagine this sort of shot on a calm sea, clear horizo and a blue or misty sky with a tighter crop. that would be minimalistic enough with lot of mood in it and the eye could rest on the boat and our ears coul try to listen to the voices of the people inside the boat :-)))

if you take this image, adjust the levels to neutral, add a curve layer, make a "s" curve on rgb channels, try a landscape crop withthe boat on 2/3 position and it could fit wonderful to solitude.

hope this helps

cheers
v.t.

Vernon,
Is the problem it isn't minimalistic enough or are you too good at noticing detail:) To be honest, I wanted to submit this one, but its too wide and I didn't want bother reprocessing the image. I guess I should have cropped it...
www.tannerphotography.net/single_pic.php?year=2006...
But it still has waves:)

:-)

just tried something

www.xoverip.info/tbd/tanner.jpg

cheers
v.t.

I see what you mean. That does look more minimalist:)

Vernon, I like your version too. Now, if we could just crop it off, from the top, to just below the bulbous cloud, so that we have three layers of colour, that would work for me as a minimalist image too. :~))

Simply brilliant! I can't find anything to criticize in here.

Was this real mist or just water with a really, really slow speed? It's not the first time I see this kind of shot and I've always wondered...

nattfodd, the ten stop filter reduces the shutter speed by a factor of 1000 (1024 to be precise). If I remember right this exposure was around 65 seconds in afternoon light - the normal exposure would have been about 1/15 - 1/20 second. Any water slapping up the beach takes on a very misty look.

@zenith9: that's great, I've hit this problem many times and usually just have resolved to wait sunset...

Thanks a lot for this tip, I will try to get one of those filters!

Doesn't look like water though, does it...? It looks...like mist. So there's your criticism. Extremely atmospheric it is, and a super image, water however, it is not. Always had a little problem with this representation of water, I'm afraid. Just voicing my opinion, you can't have it all your own way...lol!

I love it! I'd have it printed and hang it on a wall! Truely a great image...