Presidential palace at Bogor, Java

Very nice composition. Unfortunately, the sky is dead. The image would be much stronger if you used Polarizer. It could add more blue color in the background like we see in foreground reflection. That would be closer to real.

Vlad, a blue sky is often absent in that part of the world (though travel brochures may not give any indication of that fact). Ugly white and too bright light is the reality. In the pond's water surface you can see the reflection of large white cumulus clouds and little blue sky. What you would like to consider as real is, in my opinion, sort of fake. The world is as it is shown in my photographs. If I would like to make it more 'real' I'd probably become a painter. Thanks for your critique.

Comments/critiques are most welcome. Cheers, Sam.