I am new at this...but to me this is so beautiful and natural...straight from the camera! Good eye!

Thank you very much. Some tweaking with PS

It does look a bit over processed. Is this a crop out of a larger image, sorta looks like it. I do think you let the sky get a bit too noisy.

I always appreciate the criticism that I recieve. It makes me work harder to improve. I only cropped it a little. There was another tree that I took out. Can you explain what too noisy means?

Noisy means something like grain, but not as natural looking. This can be made worse by heavy post processing.

This might help:

www.photoxels.com/tutorial_noise.html

Beamer thanks for the definition. I see what you mean. Maybe I will post the photo before I used PS. I have the mentality that photos are meant to be what is captured, and not tampered with. I understand that it is the age of digital photography and must go with the flow of the times. Just my own personal critique. What do you think?

It's a beautiful photo, but it does appear to suffer from low resolution. Was it taken on a compact?

It was taken on a cannon powershot sd750 point and shoot. I just got photo shop and was playing around.

The colors of the sky are incredibles!!!

With some judicious cropping this could still be a powerful shot - even with all the noise pollution.

Best,
Jon

I can't really add on to what has already been said...the colors are beautiful!