Toscana - spring

Beautifully captured. You got the DOF perfectly, and the sleek looking background is a perfect compliment to the colorful and busy foreground. This is a winner.

The bottom portion of this picture is really nice, but doesn't match up at all well with the top half, which not only seems somewhat underexposed, but has a strange purple tint that does not look natural. Was this color applied during post-processing? I guess the main reason it's odd is because the bottom portion looks like it was taken in fairly bright sunlight, while the top looks like the end of a sunset...

Anyway, thats my 2 cents. The composition, including a nice foreground, interesting midground and sky background is good - I would maybe even chop off a bit from the bottom where there is dead space between the red flowers and they are a bit out of focus.

I'm being nit-picky because I hope it will be a helpful critique, but I really like the idea of this picture, just not the post-processing. Cheers...