architecture Old Court House, St. Louis

Wow! I'm surprised at the lack of input on this. Incredible depth, great exposure and colors! Nice work!

Interesting result of using lens fish,I like the angle you chosen and effect created,splendid colors too,regards.

Fantastic angle. Fantastic work. Best Regards.

Fabulous composition and colour rendering.

classic composition by colors+interesting point, wow on color white balance and a nice combination of twin color balance , extra ordinary sharp details  congratulations!!!!!!!!............ regards

Interesting composiytion with great colors!

Wondering if a small step to the right would be nice for your lamp to fit in the frame ;)

Excellent work Robert

The lighting is perfect.  The lamps in the foreground are not over-exposed, which is difficult to achieve.  Great photo.  BTW, the peak of the cupola kind of has an erie aspect to it given it's lighting.  Great work

very nice and original

Strong dynamic composition

The point-of-view, composition, and color saturation are outstanding.

Beautiful picture

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Congratulations for the excellent composition, colors and lighting.

Indeed Congratulations for this remarkable internal capture with this well balanced exposure and fine details, thanks to Elve’s for their choice also.

Balanced well with good color. But I think it's much too busy. The sconce at bottom is clipped as well

Very well done. Apart from the sconce being clipped, as has been mentioned by Ken T above, I have no suggestions for improvement. It is busy, but it all comes together nicely, more like a pattern than random clutter. I like it :-)

I realize that we aren't here to judge the choices of the elves, but this week I feel that I actually need to do so. In this image, we probably have the absolute most problematic image this photographer made of this place. There are two other images in the portfolio that do a much better job describing the space and which better reflect the elegance of it. If the goal is to pick the worst and then have us criticize the maker, so be it, but why not once in awhile pick a better image where there can be success to be discussed rather than overt problems.

These two images interpret and describe the space. They have a fine sense of rhythm and movement yet capture that grandeur and elegance of the space while the images are unified by their structure:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12350112
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10162450

Instead, we have been given this version as the POW, one that has overt issues and doesn't seem to represent this photographers best work--even in this same space.

The light fixture and the dome create two distinct subjects here and don't seem related nor connected. The sconce is placed in the center bottom, right between the two vertical columns that should help draw us up but creates a road block and interrupt to these vertical elements. Being so far under the wall, the diagonal line-- that works well in the other photo where it appears--breaks the motion of the curved section at the top of the columns. There just doesn't seem to be anything pulling this image together.

While I do feel the other two are much better, I feel they all suffer a bit from-- what I am assuming-- HDR having been applied. The colors just seem rather thick and the airiness I would expect in a space like this seems to be missing.

When the image first opened I thought that I must have clicked on the TRP rather than the POTW, apparently not, although any distinction between the two forums grows increasing narrow.

Without any doubt, it is an exceptional internal capture. Well balanced and in a very good lighting and perspective. The only drawback might be the overkill in its softness, which made the columns and ceilings look closer to the plastic.

What an interesting perspective. One noticed slight signs of dilapidation around part of the celing and walls but it feels like a gradual decline. It almost feels like the premise is still being used with the decline in place. The colours are vivid and makes one want to stare at it.

A beautiful use of leading lines. I'm not a fan of ultra wide angle images but this works. Isn't that the Jefferson Memorial on 4th street down near the Arch?

I like the composition and excellent HDR work.
I would suggest to step to the left a little bit (Wendy suggested to the right to avoid clipping). This way the three light bulbs won't overlay, the three round bulbs together with the ceiling round will impose a stronger graphic composition.

The lighting is astonishing, must have had additional lights. Love the composition, with the great "legs" rising from the base, the "arms" lifting out as in acclaim, and the "head" either looking down or up. Warm and cool, balanced together like a Chinese sweet-sour thing.