InTheLonlyHour - please view larger

very beautiful

Beautiful colors and composition.

Very nice layering placed on this piece, it give this a soft painterly feel that we can not look away ~

Tx Mehmet Akin for your comment.

Tx Eystein Matheussen for your comment.

Tx Tony Brandstetter your comment describes very well what I wanted to transport. 

A very peaceful photo, love the color and the painting like quality great work.

Greg

A very nice result with beautiful lighting, Joerg!

I agree with all the above comments, this is sensational. One of this year's best, 7's for sure!

Regards, Michael

it reminds me of impressionistic painting...wonderful soft colors, light and atmosphere...well done...regards....David

Really Fantastic!

very well

Wonderful and very artistic work, COMPLIMENTS!!!

Dear Jörg,

Congrats for this beautiful image, with always overwhelming nature.

In this work, what I like best is that it's totally balanced, vegetation on each side, gives much balance to the scene. Good sense of distribution.

The tonal range (warm tones), reflections and light, make this atmosphere a very special one. I like it very much!

Kindest regards, Laura.

Ein alter Meister, alter Meister!

Perfect.

Congrats.

Peter

A most exceptional composition. Very powerful, highly artistic and very interestingly processed. Congratulations for an image of the highest aesthetic standards.

DG

Cheers

PDE

OK, I'll kick this one off... First, please go and view this at large size. There is far more going on here than can be seen in this small view. So, I'll say it: Wow! This has the feeling of an extraordinary painting, but is revealed as a tremendous photographic effort. Even the bright sky is full of shape and texture. If printed full size, it is clear that one could spend a very long time exploring every detail and nuance of this photo, from the duck in the foreground to the draping stings of leaves, to the delicate tracery of black tree branches, and more. This one pleases at every level. I wish there was more information posted regarding the equipment used and the exposure settings. For me, this image receives top marks for composition, exposure, color, timing, vision, DoF, subject selection, etc.

Tanks all for the discussions, especially David for the excellent detailed analysis.
Here are the missing information’s. In general, I used a “bad lens” and simple software.
- Sony SLT-A77V, ISO-200, A = 5, F =35 mm, 1/250, universal zoom for travelling: TAMRON 18-270 Di VC 3.5-6.3.
- Software FastStone Image Viewer and Perfect Effects 9 free

It seems to be one of my best works showing that both the equipment and the software are not the most important boundary condition to get a great result.
To all of photonet friends: I wish a bright creative and powerful 2016: BR Joerg

I'm not familiar with the rest of the comments that apparently were posted for critique purposes before this image was selected for this week's POTW. And, quite honestly, I think that David probably has all the bases covered in his comments from yesterday. Nonetheless, I feel obligated to contribute, even if it's in small measure.

To risk oversimplification, the photograph simply is beautiful. To me, a viewer is immediately drawn in by the lush, vivid colors. The experience is augmented by dramatic contrasts between the dark tree limbs and the sky's brightness. And, if this isn't enough, the viewer's eye is directed to explore the finer nuances in detail and texture David mentioned. I would be honored to hang this image in a prominent place in my home.

Bravo, Joerg. A healthy, happy, prosperous, productive, and meaningful 2016 to you and yours.

Michael, as photographers we mostly don’t know what we will achieve as the final result. I made this shot 2013. I found it again in 2015 and I was wondering about it. I started to treat it without to change details of the original shot. You pronounced the bright structured sky and the dark tree limbs. I mean that is the point. A friend of mine, an important art collector and art expert, Georg Bruehl, said to me that each real art painting has to show up two aspects: somehow an optimistic aspect but also the end of something. It’s a luck that both aspects are in. Thanks for the comment : I wish you a Powerful 2016. BR Joerg

A pleasing image and one no doubt based on a thoughtful perception of the subject matter. The subjective rendition will no doubt please some more than others, but that is the nature of art and photography. Because that is so subjective, it is hard to critique the image. I like its gentle evocation of fantasy, but without reference to the initial photograph of the scene or other treatments of it I cannot provide any other constructive comment to the photographer.