Great idea. Felicitation

Was only a matter of time until that hit the front page. Great idea, Thelma.

Suprise,suprise...thanks everyone! :)

Fantastic blues and reds. Great image.

Awesome idea, very refreshing. Good color choice too.

Different is good. The tones are amazing in that waterfall. I find this image extraordinary.

I've been out of town and came back to some great comments, many thanks to you all. Beamer, this is Upper Mesa Falls outside of Island Park, Idaho. Not sure where you live, but definitely check it out if you're ever in those parts. There is also the very stunning Lower Mesa Falls just down the road. Actually, the whole scenic byway they're located on is fantastic...let me know if you want a .kmz file for Google Earth. :-)

Again, thanks for the input everyone.
CR

While you did a great job with the long exposure, I have to agree with grahambo.

I feel like a bird soaring higher to view the beauty below...

Thank you Kenergy, much appreciated.

@LadyWings, thanks for your feedback as well. It's good to get input from a variety of angles, as well as photographs.

man, if only it was sunny..

if it was...

Yes, this a great capture, you deserved the feature.

This is perfect clear and sharp shot to my eyes
congrat
just to bad about the black strip on the rigth wich mask some of is whisker
everything is not perfect in our world
but this is still a 5/5
you give me great inspirations as i have a contract
of cat photo next week Hope to do as good

YES so glad this got featured. Congrats!

WOW! This is so cool!

Very nice shot! Love the DOF in this photograph.

This is such a great one, Jen!!! The focus is so perfect...the framing so tight and bang on. I still LOVE it!

Cats can stare at you like that... it's almost like they can see through you. I just love the sharpness of the hairs.

Only cats. I've tried so many times to get a shot like this of my dogs and they just want to lick the lens! Great photo!

evil cat^^ very sharp

Beautiful, every hair is clear! Love it!

Looks surreal. Nice textures too. Great shot.

WOW!

Very nice catch!
Hummingbirds are always magical to me.
The shot through the water is amazing by itself too!
Thanks for sharing this.
Mind if I save it?

Thanks, I love hummingbirds too, was at a friends house where they have a flock of about 10 that feed all day long so needless to say I have lots of shots of them. Feel free to save it...

It's so crazy, they move their wings so fast the camera can't even catch it..

Wonderful capture. I know what it's like to try to capture these little speed demons.

Love the reflection!

Beautiful!

Ahem, love it!!

It's a bit too low on contrast for my taste. I guess that this is what you wanted but still I feel that the tones on the right side are a bit too washed out.
Another point is the foreground where I miss a bit of DOF. Maybe a higher f-stop or a shot with an wider angle and an appropriate crop might have helped out here. Or, maybe, a tele shot - but I don't know how high that bride actually is. :)
I also feel that the image is a bit weightier on the left side due to the scaffold(?) that isn't there as much on the right side.

I agree with Markus's comments from one perspective, but from another I think that this shot works particularly well. I am figuring that the bridge is painted in "bridge grey" and it was a clear blue sky day. The two colours are surprisingly close in b&w, so it gives an almost surreal image of the post. I really like the way that the edges blur with the sky to give the line of rivets and the peeling paint is the only hint of a solid surface.

"The two colours are surprisingly close in b&w" may be right if you just desaturate the colors. What if you use colored filters to separate the tones, i.e. a red one to get a black sky? (I know, then there is another problem with the darks ... It was just an idea. :) )

Agree with above and the watermark is VERY distracting.

One trick in PS is to set a gradient map adjustment layer on the top layer and come under that layer with a hue/saturation adjustment layer and play around with the individual hues and saturations. This give the ability to really play with separating the hues and see real-time adjustments thur the gradient map. I use this a lot and it really helped with B&W conversions.

Thanks a lot everyone! Just got into this and always looking for tips!