Splash!

See larger, please. Thanks for your opinion

did not rate. This is interesting and I encourage you to keep working with this effect. The effect works fine but the entire image seems tilted to the left and I am not sure where the real level angle is.

It is meant to be tilted. It adds dynamism, like the droplets on the lense. It was an experiment... sorry it was not appreciated as other photos I posted. I read this feedback as: "This is not the direction to follow, try something else". Thanks for commenting, anyway. I much appreciated it :)

Stefano, I was misunderstood, I apologize. My comment was not meant the way you took it, but was rather striving to be neutral yet positive. With your indulgence I will begin again. The tilt does not work for me, while it adds dynamic tension, for me it takes away from the nature of the scene. If the image were even more abstract, the tilt, for me, might work better.

The painterly effect works very very well. The water texture in the foreground and the strength of the stone textures create an excellent contrast in textures power. The PS effect is used to great effect and could even be pushed further into the abstract.

On a personal note, I find myself, after yeah these years, stuck completely and firmly in "the real". Try as I might, I seem unable to go beyond what I see into the deeper abstract or emotional realm. You have a gift that goes far in a direction I can not travel, treasure it, push it, enjoy it and most of all keep sharing it.

Craig, you don't have to apologize! You weren't misunderstood. I read your comment and appreciated it, but then I also had a look at the ratings and they clearly show that if few people liked my image, many others didn't. The meaning of my comment was that despite your neutral/positive feedback and my good opinion of the photo I posted, I was sorry because this image wasn't appreciated like the others in my portfolio.

 

Then what you added with your second comment made me very happy and I thank you a bunch for that. Infact I'm trying to do something more than the banal landscape.... I'm trying to look deeper inside it and you understood it clearly. :) I'm amazed. Thank you very much once again.

Stephano, this site like other photography websites are communities of photographers that get to know each and comment on each others work...it takes a LONG time to get comments on pictures at this site, you need to come here very often and build friends. It's not that no one liked the picture. Find a community of photographers that you there style and you'll get excellent feedback but only if you are giving feed back to their art as well.  Take Care...Vicki