"Elements"

I'm very much impressed by this photo again. The Californian landscape at its best! It is maybe time for a collection of your extraordinary Californian landscape images. Have you already thought about such a project?

BR / Volker

Thanks Volker! Actually, the notion occurred to me when I found out we were moving to California over 4 years ago! My love for the California landscape is a project that consumes me. That is a very kind comment and I truly appreciate it!!

A very interesting location and moment caught,is true there are lot of elements in this image that make it attractive and create a peaceful mood,compliments.

RC

A beautifully composed image Mark! As Volker mentioned you do make California look pretty damn nice! Superb, meticulous, work!

All the best,
Neil

Another great scene with beautiful light and colors!

Brilliant composition, Mark. The way the sun star comes through that tree silhouette is particularly lovely.

Constructive: On my monitor, the green is a bit too heavy throughout, and the shadows are a little less blue than I'd want. I attached a quickly-worked adjustment to show what I'm thinking of: conversion to Lab mode, curves layer, with a boost in the a chanel's mid range, and and S curve in the b, deepening the low blue and boosting high yellow. Conversion back to RGB, followed by a slight saturation layer boost and darkening overall.

(And yes, it's overly reddish and too dark now, but I hope it gets the idea across!)

outstanding composition and technique. i prefer John's version of color cast. great shot anyway.

Its a lovely image, I agree about green dominance. HDR?