Sunrise at Sea Level

Sunrise -- Comments appreciated.

Awesome photo. Perfect time and place.

so beautiful!!

Very special light and cloud conditions photographed in a superb way.

Excellent image.

 

Simon

stunning ....

Excellent. Regards.

Eugenio.

Wonderful light. Great composition. Nicely done. Dan

Great image very well done.

Awesome photo, amazing how beautiful reality can be.

Absolutely stunning image. I am in awe of it. Well done.

Wonderful light. Great composition. Nicely done. Jojy

THAT"S MY DAVE :) Awesome way to start the year

Brilliant!!

Dave,

 

This is absolutely STRIKING! Incredible subject, light and composition. Fantastic!

Excellent light and colors.

Magnificent. The glow in the sky is awesome.

What a wonderful photo, the compositions, colour, subject, and atmosphere are all stellar. I especially love the reflection of the sky breaking through the clouds, the little patches of blue really make this special.

Would expect nothing but the best from you Dave, excellent shot.

The accolades above say it all and I really can't add anything more. Superb!

Great light and excellent composition!

Wonderful capture....exposure is excellent. The moody sky, frost and sunrise all compliment each other. The curves of the water in the foreground leading to the mountainscape is also very well composed.

Amazing shot. Thanks for sharing, Dave

Fantastic shot, Like something from Lord of the rings.

This is a incredible shot, very beautiful!

I stumbled across your portfolio while searching for something else. There is absolutely no doubt that your pictures are stunningly beautiful but I have a problem with how heavily they are manipulated. That's just a personal thing and only my opinion, of course. There is nothing really wrong with heavy manipulation of non-journalistic photographs but, for me, they have been so overdone that I have become numbed to them. The world is now flooded with "perfect" photographs of things that never actually existed. In a way, it's like the heavy use of digital special effects in movies these days. It is beautiful at first but it quickly loses it's impact. There are photography websites now that feature almost nothing but heavily edited photographs and it wears thin for me after a short while. What I am really impressed with these days are truly "natural" images that the photographer had to find and work for in the field, not in front of a monitor using Photoshop. I mean no offense by this. I am just expressing my personal opinion. Your work is beautiful and you are very skilled in image manipulation but the the heavy use of manipulation no longer appeals to me much. I suppose it can be justified by comparing it to painting, though. I guess I'm just old-fashioned but I will not be surprised if a day comes when "straight photography" comes back into popularity as it did with the Group f.64 in the early 1900s. But it really comes down to simply being a matter of "each to his own." It's not a matter of right or wrong. It's only a matter of personal taste and, for me, much photography these days has become so far removed from reality that it loses it's naturalness.