Ma'alaea Moonset

The full moon was dropping as the early morning sky was changing hues

from the sun starting to rise behind me.

Dominick,

This is lovely- the colors, lines, layers of texture all meld into a beautiful whole. The windmills are neat too!

Lovely Mood and capture.

Just a question! Would you consider cloning out those branches on the left? Difficult for me to decide.

Tony,  Better than that, I'm grabbing the chain saw and getting that obstruction out of my view ;-)     I often clone it or use content aware healing to remove the trees on either side of my view from home.  The nuance of colors made this one more difficult than most.  It's doable, but in the overall scheme of events, who cares?

Super, surreal pastels Dom.  

Another vote for  the chain-saw.  The moon makes it perfect.

Mom will not be happy if you cut her afternoon shade!  Even with the branches, this is excellent and I particularly like the cloud formation, and the moon detail, and the distant beach, and.... well, all of it... Mike

Mike, you're right on the money with the afternoon shade.  Every time the wind comes up I am allowed to lop off another branch.  Smaller sail to catch the wind....Aloha.

Practically,...a masterpiece! Compliments for your cleverness!

Really beautiful work with very nice lighting, Dominick!

Such a lovely capture. Truly was worth your early rising. The moon is so striking above theose beautiful clouds. Lovely colours captured Dominick.

I like how all this layers look,cloud color is superb.I know is difficult to clone out something like this left branch with very soft different colors round it,sometime I try with heal tool but I am not satisfied with result,I had a look on lot of tutorial about this but just now to me it doesn't work so good,this being said leave for moment the branch there.

sinceres salutations

Exquisite coloration....worth getting up for.  Oh to have this view each day!  Personally I like the feathery quality of the tree contrasting and creating a balance to the rest of the image.  Can't go wrong either way though.

This is wonderful work, Dominick.

--Lannie

Really a fine, fine piece. Of all that I saw of your work this is the one that made me stop. For me, I LIKE the branches, and wish there were a few more. But the deftness of processing especially is worth the compliment: this is a fine capture.