jeff_white3

Wonderful shot Terje! I saw and fell in love with this one when you originally posted it. I think it is very deserving of the POW nod. Congrats!

I disagree with those who think the lighting is poor here. In my opinion, you did a wonderful job with the metering and have a very dramatic shot to show for it. Congrats!

The lighting here is flat and uninteresting, and the image as a whole is unbalanced. Also, cropping out the sky would improve things in my opinion.

I don't understand the 4/4 ratings here. The lighting is wonderful. Congrats on handling an extremely wide exp. latitude situation. Your entire portfolio is excellent, by the way.

The trees on the shore have been very heavily cloned. The only portion of foliage that appears to be unaltered is the clump at the far right side of the frame. One glance at the reflection will tell you that the sky in the top portion of the "photograph" is not the same sky reflected in the water (as someone noted earlier). I don't have a problem with Photoshop manipulations if the photographer is honest about those manipulations, but your assertion that this was "shot with polarising filter to get the vivid colors" is an apparent attempt to deceive your audience.

Beautiful! I am a sucker for minimal compositions, and this one is breathtaking. Congrats.

Wonderful job. There have been some comments about cropping out the horizon. Personally I like it the way it is.... Gives some grounding to the shot.

Great shot! I love the simple composition and the way the curves of the field draw one's eye to the tree. I feel, though, that the tree should have been placed slightly lower in the frame and to the left a bit more (the Golden Mean). Overall an excellent shot and one that has long eluded me as well!

Excellent shot! The exaggerated foreground really helps stress the vastness of the area. I feel like I could almost climb into this one.