manolis1

No, that is on Waikiki beach in Honolulu. This is in Paradise cove:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3734532

Thank you Peter.

My good friend Masoud,

I wish you the Best and only the Best for you & your family....Happy New Year full of Health.

Thanks a lot for your kind words.

My good friend Masoud,

it's always a pleasure to hear from you. Thank you very much for your comment.

Best wishes for you and your family.

Thank you Robert,

I wish you the best of the best.

Robert,

Thank you very very much.

Best wishes....Happy Holidays.

Cyrus & Sue,

First of all I want to thank you for your observations. About the sky...if you didn't mention it I would not observe it. The funny thing is that last week I got its print and it's gorgeous. I guess the circular effect got created after the compression of the file.

Thank again for your comments.

Best wishes & Happy Holidays.

Kah,

Thank you. This photo was taken right after sunrise (about 7:00am).

Best wishes & Happy Holidays.

Nicholas,

Thank you. Best wishes & Happy Holidays.

Keith,

Thank you very much for your comment.

Best wishes & Happy Holidays.

Tomas,

It is a filter. As you see there was not even a single cloud. The sky was lifeless. That is the only reason I used a warm filter in PS.

Thank you for your observation and your comment.

Best wishes & Happy Holidays.

Fernando,

you are absolutely right about overexposed parts of this photo. Despite I was up every day at 6:00AM I couldn't shoot this particularly scene that time because the ladies were coming after 9:00AM, when the sun was already high creating that high contrast The use of polarizing filter did not help because of the sun position. I couldn't even shoot the whole hut because they had some funny stuff on the left side that created distraction. Anyway, I tried my best to capture as much details of the hut-stuffs and local people sacrificing the text of sand which was pure white(the perfect reflector to increase the contrast and blow out the high lights) and sky.

Fernando,

Thank you very much for your observation and your comment.

Best wishes and Happy Holidays.

Marcio,

Thank you for your observation and your comment.

Best wishes & Happy Holidays.