Yes, I am looking at you!

Comments are welcome!

Best regards,

Marianna

Excellent shot..great colours and many details

regards

What a beautiful place! You have really nailed this one, the forest looks so soft and the bear looks so scary. How can you get that close without being eaten?

Yes,this image is really eyes catching,warm light on the trees,trees that are awesome,wild vegetation, all look excellent(especially on black bg) and this black bear is the cherry on the cake.On my mind is only a question:how you took this image,I think the position is very closer  IMO,even for a generous zoom,if this is from two photos you did an excellent and carrefuly work here,I zoom it 800% and all looks ok,so what can I say is only compliments and seven.

I enjoyed your wildlife photo, Great shot, wonderful color, lighting , sharpness and detail as well as composition. Well done. take care.

Wow, that's one big Black Bear, and so close too. A wonderful photo.

Hello, this is very nice shot. Thanks for sharing. Regards, Zeljko.

the direction and color of the light is different on the bear as on the rest of the scene, and even if it is very well worked together still feels obviously that it is a composite image. the original shot is very good, nice colors, light and composition.

Very nice! I bet a little scary at the time too!

I just wanted to say exactly what Walter Whiters said, and add: Seven all the way!

PDE

Last picture of the photographer :-)

Wonderful composite - I'm assuming the bear was added - and it was very well done! Nice editing skills!  Beautiful forest and bear safely non-threatening this way to the photographer :)

If this is a single shot I hope you had a huge lens. and not as close as appears. wonderful shot      Pat

After 35 years of wilderness hiking I have never had this vantage point. Never want to. I always accept the possibility. Nice shot.

Mariana, excellent shot by all standard. 7.

Although an interesting idea, I have never been one to support such a heavily manipulated photograph that is set as a landscape. Adding additional elements and creating a scene that never existed is your own thing, but perhaps you should state this in your title or as a comment? This is what gives digital post processing such a bad name in landscape photography. zero in my book, but I'll give you the kindness of not rating this image. Cheers.

There have been a variety of comments for your image. Some have pointed out the addition of the bear. Others have expressed their fears and almost perhaps commended you for being such a risk taker. They seem to be oblivious to the fact that the bear was not actually present. I guess for me, that seems to be misleading. I think the setting as it was without the bear is exceptional and in no need of dramatizing. Given the beauty of the original setting, introducing the bear has resulted in a negative experience for me as a viewer. It is fun to work with the wonders of Photoshop and experiment with it's magical powers. I think we all have. Your detail work around the bear is quite good, with the exception of the incongruous angles of light. As a suggestion, you might have considered flopping the bear horizontally with the transform tool in PS, thus bringing in some continuity to the angles of light. As well, I think it would be advantageous to share with all the viewers the realities, or lack of. I have viewed many of your landscapes and they are wonderful. Keep up the good work!

Great image but should be in the digital alteration category.  When you add a bear it certainly is not a landscape in the true sense of the word.  I love your work and your landscapes are fantastic.  Question - why? Why present this as a true representation of a landscape.  Why not reveal  the alteration.  Just my humble opinion and I realize many would disagree.  

Thank you all for your comments!

Best regards,

Marianna

As the artistic maestro, Pierre Dumas, has said, this is a wonderful work of art!  I completely concur!  Photography is art, just like any other medium.  Personally, I have to come realize that landscape photographers seem to be a little touchy when it comes to the artistic side of our craft, and I'm not quite sure why.  No one seems to get all defensive when people use and apply artistic techniques to portraits, architectural scenes, or sheer whimsical fantasy scenes, but 'mess' with a landscape scene and some are willing to cry foul.   I would hazard a guess that all of us involved in digital photography could, or should, post most of our images under the 'digital manipulation' category; certainly my landscapes images are heavily manipulated.  That is what post-processing with CS5 is all about, eh?

In my opinion, you've no more misrepresented this scene than a photographer does in touching up the blemishes on on a teenager's face.  Nor should you have to represent your image, your work of art as manipulated.  It is up to the viewer to interpret the image in any such fashion as they see fit, and no explanation is required from you.  That's what art is--your vision, and the viewer's interpretation.  You have tremendous talent, keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing this with all of us.  Hopefully, everyone stops and thinks for a moment the real value of what we all do with harnessing our own visions and then posting and sharing them with others.  Cheers!  Chris

Looks more like a painting than an actual photo but if that is what you were trying to accomplish (using the shop), then I say very well done.

Excellent image, composition, specially  when  you know  the  situation in this  case. Bravo.

Excellent capture. Bravo for great work!

Beautiful composition and great lighting. Great shot.