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Ciao!

This is fantastic!

Excelent tones, colors, composition, you name it.

Very good!

Genial, gran obra de arte, digna de foto de GP, gran composicion

encuadre y nitidez de campeonato.

Felicidades por este trabajo.

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doesnt bother me the fact that it is a composite image, but the color range/white balance suggests that it is not a daylight photo, rather a night shot, and so the shadow of the tree shows that somewhere it would be another light source which cannot be the moon nor the sun. so, the idea of the photo was not taken until the end.
sometimes is possible in daylight to have a pale moon like this, but then there is too much cyan in the snow down there.
on the other hand the moon addition is worked very nicely, without having a feeling that it is added.
outstanding mood and composition.
a good photo.

Indeed this is so much manipulated image, not just the moon been added but also the sky is clearly shown different tone in between the tree branches, the tone there is lighter in density.
This is where manipulation or altering the image originality must be of a good and skilled process, where it is not shown that quality here.
I like this image for the sort of composition been created to end with this beautiful lay out and well done for the photographer to have his image on the first page with my best regards.

I spend hours upon hours walking around looking for vantage points, calculating moon rise/set spots and planning outings to get the moon right where I want it. I often wonder if this is simply a pointless exercise when I see composite images that are getting POW honors. It would seem that it is.

It is not clear if the photographer gave much thought to positioning of the moon relative to the primary image. The first thing that caught my eye was the shadow of the tree and the placement of the moon seemed odd. The moon is positioned almost perpendicular to the source of light coming from the right. From the shadow of the tree it appears that the light source had to be at an angle above the tree to the right. If the light source is the sun, then it is hard for me to imagine a sky (pre dawn or late dusk) so dark and a moon relatively bright at the same time with the sun relatively above the horizon. At the same time, I also find it a little hard to believe that the light source was artificial, given the nature of the landscape, although not impossible. Perhaps the placement of the moon where it is was deliberate and intentional on the part of the photographer. If the placement of the moon was not deliberate, then it highlights the problem of oversight to detail when one is making a composite image. The primary image is pleasing and well composed, but the composite is altered way too much and does not work for me.

I really like the simplitiy of the composition. However, it appears clearly manipiulated. Seemingly the moon being added. A bit of an off color sky among the tree branches. I think a bit too much cyan in the snow. The tree shadow seems out of place as well.
It's very pleasant, but I prefer enhanced out of camera images where the composition is there when the shutter is depressed. Just a matter of taste, I suppose.

Nice composition and good shot. However, it look fake to me at my first glance.

I love the stark simplicity of this photo -- it's a theme I often strive for when I'm out with a camera. Like Dave T, I use several resources to calculate when the moon will be at the right stage at the right time, and I travel in the dead of night to be at the right spot at the right moment. I've spent 5 years trying to get a certain shot of Mount Rainier with a rising full moon, which from my vantage point happens only twice each year, but the notorious cloud cover of western Washington has so far foiled my efforts. I keep trying; I love the challenge.

So once again, several are liking the image itself but questioning the digital shortcuts (the process) and now the obvious compositional improbabilities or impossibilities that result. I'm not sure how this image was created. The light around the moon is so perfectly done that I wonder if this was achieved with just a color shift and decreased exposure that turned day into looking more like night. I hope Andrea will let us in on her technique so that we don't have to guess and perhaps be totally off base in our assumptions.

This is one of those pictures where the image is not merely a representation of something else, but rather, the image has a life of its own, so to speak, the image speaks for itself. I love the stark simplicity. It takes you in to an uncluttered scene that leaves you with a sense of marvel.

The moon-landing conspiracy theorists will have a ball with this. The only thing missing is a fluttering flag. I like the lonely tree and the snow-covered ground though. All-in-all, a nice capture.

Ciao.

I love this photo so much! It's really simple but is so alive...I have my canon digital rebel EOS and I love to shoot such like this one...maybe once I have collated all my shots i'll have it posted here..I'll have one of the best maybe...soon...I feel like i'm about to land on the moon...

For me, the photo is less interesting than the fact that none of the pre-Photo of the Week comments mentioned the out of place tree shadow. Hmmmmm.

Stephen Penland 
 
I hope Andrea will let us in on her technique.
His technique

By returning to the page of Andrea,I have seen that he was a very skilful landscaper,you can do the look too,and there is only seven other images he put them under light performance folder,

this POW image is the only image that is so minimalistic in being only a cabin and a moon have been shot.

it is the odd one(in the meaning of strange to his works) ,all of his landscapes are very crowded in subjects whether trees ,cabins,snow or mountains.What I want to say ,they have no place of such thing like collage or compositing at least as I saw them in my eyes,this does not exclude the composting of this image but it give a hint,though a small one that composting is out of his work.

Then I have enlarged the moon to the level of single pixel using photoshop, and though it needs a digital forensic experts to discover the compositing,but there is no wired or abnormal single pixel surrounding the moon, moreover the dark side of the moon have blended so evenly with the sky to a perfect degree.

All those simple observations lead me to say that the shadow of the tree may come from another stronger source of light,it is morning is Andrea said,and the moon can not inflict such a powerful shadow while the sky is blue.

I would rather to believe,or at least convincing my self to believe that this is an authentic original image ,and an unbeaten example of minimalism both in the land and the sky,very well captured ,with typical unspoiled good light of the morning.