St. Peter Ording (please view larger)

I love the feeling of solitude that the image conveys, added to by the movement of the figure within the wide landscape. Somehow I think he would be better walking in the opposite direction "into" the image rather than out of it, but thats not essential for me to enjoy this scene. The red sky adds a surreal element to the image, accentuating the atmosphere of vast isolation.

Best Regards

Alf

Very nice. And I agree with what has been said - the solitude is brilliantly tangible. I like the colour manipulation you have done - is it crossed? (If I may ask)

I could imagine this in reaaaaally big, on a plain white wall. Wonderful.

I like it. So simple and so well done. With the little person giving the right balance in the picture.

i like this one a lot.  the motion communicates a lot here.  j

minimalistic and with great colors

a very clear and concise composition with great attention to detail - large version could be much larger for my taste ;-)

I'd disagree with Alf on the direction of the walker: with the direction away from the group of beach chairs the feeling of solitude is conveyed better: the place is so deserted that we're just observing last person to leave...

Though to my taste maybe slightly too strong, the red graduated sky is a well chosen contrast to bluish tones of sky and sand - it adds to the atmosphere and keeps my eyes on the line of the horizon.

Best regards, Wolfgang

Thanks a lot for your comments! I'm glad you like it although it looks quite unnatural (or especially because of it? ;-))...

Alf: I guess I know what you mean - maybe if the couple is walking towards the beach chairs, there is a more positive mood / signal (joining instead of leaving), right? Have turned the couple, please have a look at the pertaining upload. The couple / human silhouettes are important to the overall balance anyway.

Monika: it looked like a crossed photo but I used a Cokin P 125 S gradual tobacco filter (in addition to two ND filters, please see the list of hardware applied under the photo), that was all... The majority of the shots taken this way, however, can be trashed ;-), but this here shows a pretty good balance between this unnatural red hues imposed by the tobacco filter and the blueish and greenish hues. I headed up to SPO last weekend hoping a great sunset would help take some nice shots... Got a bit disappointed because the sun was disappearing in a cloud bank just over the horizon 30 min before sunset... Hence I investigated by trial and error how some filters could impact a shot here. 

Let me produce a large version according to your recommendation a bit later. A good friend of mine urged me recently to let some large prints / panoramas of older photos produce by Whitewall, where one gets absolutely high quality prints, no doubt.

Wolfgang: let me reduce the red color / hues in the sky and come up a with an amended version a bit later. Will also address a larger version.