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Jed, I love it. The soft browns work well with the green foliage. Great image!

This one , and many similar images you posted recently, are a bit too dark for my taste. Just my preference.

Beautiful evening abstract! I love the colors. The dark bushes in the foreground make it a landscape image, I bet cropping just the blues and oranges would make for a great abstract image.

Amazing light and exposure. To be a bit nitpicky, it would be perfect if the lights on the distant shore were tack sharp. Then they would have contrasted nicely with the smooth ocean and illuminated clouds. Even in the enlarged version they look a little bit washed out.

Compared to the color version this one looks a bit dull for my taste.

The color version holds promise as the orange dunes add quite some interest. Not sure whether it;s out of focus, but the stars are a bit smeared out, probably due to the exposure time. Could it be that the orange light source moved as well?

I love the flowing crossbeds in the sandstone. The bright oranges then put it over the top. beautiful composition and colors! Abstract or landscape - doesn't matter, thanks for sharing. Christoph

Laurent, I love the evening colors and the panoramic format. I think it suits the subject well. I find it cool how the reflected cloud looks so much bigger than the one in the sky..

Ralph, I think the colors of the image are amazing. You were there at a great time. Just as Larry I would suggest a different crop. Focusing on the color of the sunset in rocks and clouds I would have cropped about half of the hoodoos. In my opinion, since they are in the shade already, they distract from the amazing background. Christoph

Well, I think it's beautiful! It is a stark image, no lush vegetation to add unnecessary detail. I love the combination of simple hills, water and sky, with the cluster of houses providing a few specks of color and interest. Well done! Christoph

Gustavo, this is probably my favorite one. The colors, the diagonal composition, they all result in a very pleasing image. I think you handled the exposure pretty well too. Yes, the sky is almost featureless, but it doesn't matter because, in my opinion it shows the hot (or soon to be hot) day, and there is plenty of nice detail in the runners. Well done.

Hi Gustavo, Obviously I like some pictures in your portfolio better than others. The runners coming up the hill tell a story of heat and (possibly) exhaustion. That's probably my favorite one because it tells a story that's not obvious. I also like the black and white leather abstract (IMG_0792). Others I enjoyed less. They seemed snapshots or experiments with your camera, but they didn't tell me much. The image of the rain drops in front of green foliage is one of them. The image of Lassen is obviously taken in unflattering, difficult light - not much many of us can do about that as we can't wait around for hours, so you did the best you could. Happened to me plenty of times. Here, however, I probably would have changed the composition, omitting the pine branches in the foreground and focusing on the volcano towering above the green hills. That would be my story of Lassen: a pretty big volcano popping out of relatively modest foothills. So I took your image, cropped it severely, darkened and increased the microcontrast for the ridge in the foreground a bit (sloppily, as I may say, but you get the idea), decreased the blues a bit, and increased overall contrast. Alright, enough said. Christoph

Tommy, all the images in this folder are wonderful. I can't decide on a favorite. Christoph

I love the uncommon angle and the resulting symmetries, but what really drew me in were the grayish, somewhat desaturated leaves with the brighter tips, and the dark green background Also, the PeeDee river must be close to the PeeDee formation, the source for a stable isotope standard widely used in geology. Christoph