Pemaquid Point

Chris,

Perfect lens choice for this image.  I really like the lines going on to infinity.  Exposure & DOF spot on. Thanks for this one.

Rick

Wonderful perspective! Wonderful image which I rated 6. If  see the same image taken early in the morning or late in the afternoon I would rate 7.

fantastic image with this point of view i like it very much compliments gerolamo

Great composition, the strata in the rock really draw you into the picture.

Excellent perspective! If it hadn't been for the rocks, the trees, the clouds, well, everything pointing at the lighthouse, I wouldn't have seen it! Very well seen and captured.

For those like me, not familiar with such terrain and sights, it takes a while to figure out what it is. Had it not been a 'Photo Of The Day', seeing its thumbnail, I would not have noticed it.

Now having read in one critique above that at the end it is a lighthouse, I find it a very good composition with so many leading lines leading the focus to the lighthouse. But then the question is, is lighthouse the subject? It occupies a miniscule space in the frame. May be some cropping would have brought emphasis to the lighthouse. If the terrain and the lines are the subject, the image has aroused curiosity and desire to know more about it. It is purely a subjective taste that it does not generate a visual delight for me. My eyes look for a point of interest closer.

I'm a bit split on this one. Technically, it's very well done. I love the details in the rocks and you were blessed with a very good sky.

The rock formation purposely does a very good job bringing the eye to the subject. That's where I split. The subject (Lighthouse) is so small in the frame I'm having a difficult time calling it the subject.

I agree with Jatinder some sort of cropping may be needed. However, to do so may negate the entire composition. At any rate, I feel the subject too small in the frame

Wow! Amazing!

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The lighthouse may have been intended to be the primary subject (that's a guess on my part), but it has been supplanted by technique as the main subject, one that relies on getting the camera very close to long leading lines.  In this case, those leading lines make up a great proportion of the frame, so it's hard to notice anything else that may also have been captured.  If you like 75% of a frame being occupied by dark rock with linear texture, then this technique will work for you.  I'm impressed by Chris' ability to keep the trees straight in this wide-angle shot.  I think he has used his 14mm lens pretty effectively.

The perspective and foreground textures seem like the subject here but the lighthouse seems to be vying for some attention but severely losing out. The photo, therefore, seems caught between a rock and hard place. Definitely draws the eye in but the eye seems destined for disappointment when encountering a too nondescript yet obviously present structure at the centerpiece of the photo. Were this taken in different lighting conditions, where the foreground was more in shadow and light was striking what's up top, it might have played better, IMO.

Look closely at the large version and you'll see a person in the frame. That's neither here nor there.

If there's going to be that much rock in the image then I think it should not be sharpened as much as I'm seeing here. If that's truly the way it looked, then I would selectively blur it.

As others have mentioned, a crop might make the image more appealing and direct more focus to the lighthouse.

Wish I had scenery like this to photograph.

This is a very dramatic capture and I agree with some of several of the comments made here. I'd love to see a little less of the tree trunk and more sky to give the smaller details some "breathing room." The tree trunk and its capture dominate the image but perhaps they shouldn't be so dominant. But, very nice original shot!