pas facile ce genre de photos et celle-ci est bien réalisée. Manque un peu de piqué mais ce doit être le scan

Awesome! Reminds me of the Life Magazine Coney Island photo!

Thanks everyone!

Funny ! Busy too:-))

Brilliant!

Is the rightward tilt intentional?

I think the tilt distracts.

B&W really works here and the ice is amazing.

Great shot. Love the treatment. The tilt doesnt bother me :)

I think this is more lens distortion rather than tilt. This is BTW easily corrected in PS.

Nice capture. I really like the contrast between the frozen river and the stateless steel buildings.
Concerning the tilt, I would have straighten the picture so that the middle buildings, from each part of the river are straight instead of having the closest one straight. It would help with a smooth perspective.

I've come across the 'tilt' problem before and wouldnt even know how to fix it. But, I think here it doesn't really take away from the photo. I like how the river takes your eye deeper into the photo.

appreciate it Jon

Great perspective and a good HDR.
What really appeals to me is the symmetry between the sky and the grass/leaves with contrasting blue/yellow. Tractor blends nicely with the grass, too.

Thank you nfds. That's one of the things that hit me immediately when i saw the tractor.

Great wide angle perspective. I don't agree with the negative critiques about the use of HDR here. I've seen worse examples :). Nevertheless, I agree that the image would probably equally nice without HDR.

Thanks HubbL.
Once again, it blows my mind how many of you think this is HDR. This image is NOT hdr.

Nice catch.

I'm guessing you used a telephoto lens for this. My only criticism is that the front to back compression seems unnatural.

At the same time, when you're on the street you have to shoot what happens... and I'm glad you did.

Willie, this was shot with a 100mm prime lens, the only one I have that is fast enough to do night street shooting without having to push it. All I did was crop a hair off of the left side. Thanks.

Thanks Ana. :)

Wow ! Great fun for you too, Tracy :)
Excellent, as usual.

Just an additional comment to make this pic coming back on the front page ;-)
I definitely love it, love the light and colors. And moreover Tracy, I appreciate so much your sensitiveness, and the particular way you make every kind of people beautiful.

Martine, that is such a nice comment. The interesting thing for me is that I didn't realize that sensitivity until people started pointing it out to me in comments. I continue to try and shoot everything but it is when I go through my images later that I decide what works and what doesn't, so both Mark and I try to make sure that our images show the humanity and the dignity that everyone deserves. It is a big discussion point for us along with so many other things in photography. :-)

Hmmm, maybe I don't have a prejudiced opinion about the composition of the arch becouse to me it is not familiar. I have never seen a photo of it. I don't know how the whole arch looks likes and how it could be showed diffrent.

Thanks for the comments. I thought I had captured the boat in time before it got behind the arch but all of this was rather difficult to put together since I had to shoot through thick plexi-glass with a lot of glare. I was pushing the lens up to the glass to avoid as much of the distortion as possible. Seeing the arch everyday and almost always in its entirety for photos, I wanted to capture it in the different way. I tried to use the arch to draw the eye down from the sky to the river and finally it's base.

I'm with Clyde in regards to the arch - for me, it's a big distraction. The subject here is the light - it's wonderful!!

Best,
Jon

I live near the Arch. I have seen more Arch photos than you can imagine. This one is original and shows the Arch in context. The composition is more creative than people can imagine.

If this is highly altered in post-processing, you did a nice job of not over doing it.

If there is no HDR/psuedo HDR manipulation, than you caught the light at the perfect moment with perfect exposure.

Anyway, this is one of the best Arch photos I've seen.

It's an interesting photo in the context of the Arch. It's not one of the standard views of it and the emphasis seems to be more on the surroundings than the arch itself. (Personally I find this interesting as I had no idea what the surroudings were like and did not expect what one sees on the other side of the river.)

Is it a phenomenal picture? Not quite. I am not sure what the missing ingredient is here. It would be nice if the boat were not behind the Arch. But the light really is nice. And, as I say, it's interest is in contextualizing the Arch rather than focusing on it.

Nice, very nice...:)

very nice colors

Truly a piece of art! Beautiful.

This shot confused me at first as to what i was looking at, but then I got it and was amazed at the color.

interesting composition, but for me another angle would be cooler. more play with lines and it would be perfect!

Not so great as must be but I do my best to write!
Thanks.

i love it!

I find the sky to be a serious distraction. Why does every sky in every photo have to be dramatic and surreal?

I do like the composition quite a bit.

Thanks Willie, as to the surreal, this image WAS processed to be surreal. So I guess it worked.

Willie, my style is one where I like the skies to have detail so I do expose my images for the sky mostly. Like some people use leading lines, I like to use they sky. Just my way of doing things.

Thanks again for your thoughts.

Wow, super nice. I like the strong perspective and the colors.

The wonderful perspective makes this a dynamic shot. Good detail and great tones. Well done.

You have a great eye.

One aspect of digital cameras that no one ever mentions is their propensity to ruin lovely images with chromatic abberation and purple fringing. These distortions are plainly visible on the left edges of three windows (left side).

That said, you envisioned an interesting photograph and composed it intuitively. Keep following your instincts. They are excellent.

Great shot!

Best to you,
Jon

Very original shot !
perhaps, increase the contrast a little bit.

Interesting shot. One of the previous commenters suggested that the man was not there. I think he supplies scale.

awesome shot! Very well done! a little eery

This is a beautiful photograph.
The extremely muted colors add to the effect.
Are the light beams digitally created or enhanced? because they are perfect.

Nice job. I agree, a little eerie, but cool just the same.

C'est crade à souhait Antoine ! :)
Excellent shoot.

Strong photo and a great idea!

I like it as it is. I think the impression would be different with more saturation.

The color looks realistic to me. I wouldn't change it.

I like the composition. I also appreciate how crisp the photo looks too.

Thomas and william,

Thanks for the comments.
This is one of my favorite out of the series!

The posted like is better, the composition feels a little "cramped". Did you shoot more context?

Clyde,
Currently I do not have shot w\ more context.
The problem was that there was distracting elements and this was the best composition with the least distractions!

I am planning on re shooting w\ my d40 once my car is working .