Event Horizon (bigger is better)

Great depth and endless perspective in a pleasant to the eye environment!

Beat regards Chuck!

PDE

Very dramatic & very nicely composed.  Love the red accents on the mail boxes.  Best, LM.

What a drama. Very good balance and composition. You had a great shot out of virtually nothing.

Tommy

3 mailboxes but the road goes on forever with no houses......

Very nice photo, good lighting and very crisp.

I think that this works well. The road to nowhere and the ominous clouds work very well together, and those red mailboxes are great. I'm always impressed by how you can create a great image from the simplest of components.

This has a real painterly feel to it. Like a wonderfully wrought oil painting, early twentieth century. Wonderful.

Thank you all for your comments. I almost didn't do anything with this shot. It seemed to be nothing remarkable, pretty marginal as far as being interesting, but I did work on it for a while and it turned out well.

One thing that I keep going back to is the question "What makes a good image?" And the answer I have is it's WHAT you photograph and HOW you present it. In this case it's probably more what I did with the photo than what the original image looked like. For instance, the sky was flipped left for right and the windmill on the horizon was actually copied from a part of the image that was cropped off, then put in a spot that I liked. As is my usual I did some dodging and burning and selective sharpening and selective color saturation (with a "brush").

I agree completely, Chuck. You and I take quite different approaches to our images but that is what I see as the 'art'component. I still wrestle with the balance between presenting a scene as I saw it and the interpretation of the scene.