Chateau de Maintenon 1986 (Eure-et-Loir)

Beautiful May afternoon at the Chateau, we were the only people there for almost three

hours, wandering around unsupervised. The arches in the distance are part of the aquaduct

built to supply water to Versailles.

Dennis, it is a very unusual composition, the round reflection of with the sky is the unusual ellement that takes your attention and is a competition to the rest, but looking at it after the first glance, the beauty of the place behind can be seen. I think that maybe darkening that round relfection will help to reduce the strong competition it has to the whole.

... but what I think I was trying to do was to work a deep inverted "V" from upper corners to the bottom center, leading to the (almost) perfect circle of the bridge and reflection. I don't think it really works, but this is one of those shots of mine that, everytime I see it, I like it for some reason. Much better than others that I worked hard to capture but didn't work for some reason.

The nice reflection makes unique result for exquisite composition, great layers add more depth, Dennis, really clear & beautiful capture!!! Best regards

A beautiful shot, Dennis! Best regards, Ruud.

I think it's one of your best picture. I love it. If you had a longer zoom and the background arches were more prominent (while the left wall less), it would be a little better maybe as long as the circle remains in the center..(That's the most powerful and best feature of course)

The almost perfect circle captured my attention at the first sight.

 

Very good picture, thank you for sharing.