14th century Venetian Lighthouse, Hania

This crumbling mediaeval light house on the Greek island of Crete has stood for over 600

years, but how will my photograph of it stand up to your critiques? - regards, Nick.

great colour

Nicely composed photograph. The boat makes it "live". Mediterranean blues are spectacular and you captured them.

Love the blues ... beautiful !! Nice .

Very nice composition and nice tones! The horizon and the tower are not exactly straight, dictracts a little. Somehow in the larger version the image looks as if it was sharpended too much in PS, but maybe that is some different effect? Whatever, it is beautiful anyway!

Thanks Janik. You are quite right about the horizon, I've measured it, and it is about 0.25 degrees off horizontal, but I agree that even such a small tilt, does distract the viewer! (amazing how good the brain is at picking up on this).

 

You are also right to say I used a "sharpen" filter in photoshop. I used it only used it the once to correct what I saw as a problem with the scan. My understanding is that photo.net allows the use of a sharpening tool, and still allows the image to be described as "unmanipulated". The colour balance was not altered at all!

 

Thanks for stopping by, I liked it too, even though it is a bit of a snap!

 

Regards, Nick.

Ah Venice! I had an idea this would be velvia. The contrast of red brick and the colour blue is excellent and the gaunt structure of the lighthouse is also excellent. I don't know if I like the boat just there. I half think that if you had pulled back or waited a fraction, you could have acheived 1/3s on the main elements and the balance would have been spot on. By the way, my shots are about 0.3 degrees to the right!

Thanks Peter.

 

It's a venetian lighthouse, but this is a harbour on Crete. The Venetians had an empire in the 14th century!

 

Venice is on my "must go" list, hopefully this autumn!

 

Fond regards, Nick.

Lovely blue tone; good composition also.

As I think, the exposure time is little bit more here as some portions of the image are almost burned out. This is just my opinion, not a criticsim.

 

Nick, one thing, I enjoy very much your detail criticism about any image and also the story behind your every image.

 

Kind regards...

 

Yes, this is what they call it blue.

Nice colors and composition. Beautiful view. Good work.