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One of your more 'natural' images and the lighting conditions are terrific. Well done!

Spectacular composition! I love the lighting conditions--very dramatic. While viewing it large does provide more detail, I still wonder if perhaps a bit more aggressive 'curves' adjustment might lighten this up just a skosh. I'm assuming that you took a series of exposures at this location, and it'd be interesting to view some variations. Well done, my friend. Cheers!

Very artistic interpretation and presentation. It is maybe cropped a little tight on the top of the frame, but that is a personal preference. Well seen, and nicely processed; all in all a very dramatic and interesting image. Cheers!

I love the lighting conditions here, Joel; and if this is a blend of two or more images, then very well done. Having said that though, I do think that the FG doesn't add anything, and I think there's a little 'hinkiness' in the coloration of the rocks in that area of the image. I think I'd have endeavored to have stepped forward a few meters to eliminate it completely. This may not have been possible, but the wide channel leading the eye into the narrower part really brings the viewer into the heart and soul of the image. Again, this is a worthy addition to your interesting Tobermory series. Cheers!

This is really some nice light you've captured here. I always call this type of an image a "betwixt and between" with respect to the foreground. Did you perhaps move a couple of meters forward and eliminate the FG rock outcrop? If so, I'd love to see it. I'd hesitate cropping this particular image anymore as it is getting pretty 'long' as it is. Your post-processing is pretty much spot-on too, Joel. Well seen and made image. Cheers! Chris

Like a Caspar David Friedrich painting. Absolutely brilliant! Cheers!

Joel, this is a terrific image. I love the comp, the light, and your post-processing. A very minor nit, but I might suggest either a very tight crop of the left side (or clone removal tool), to remove that tiny bit of dark headland on the extreme left side near the waterline. The eye snaps to it as the image is viewed, an easy fix though. Well done! Cheers!

I crack myself up! Going through your images, I came across this one...opened it up and found that I'd commented on it in 2008. Well, my assessment then still applies now. I love it! I have been to Badwater myself and can tell you that you 'got' it with this image. Spot on! The comp and light are primo. Cheers! Chris

This is pretty much off the hook! Love the composition, and love the exposure--it all works. I haven't seen this memorial yet, but need to. Well done! Cheers! Chris

I know you don't respond to critiques; and I also know that this is your style, but the haloing across the top of the cliffs is disconcerting; and I know the purple sky is your signature trait, but I don't understand why. The composition is great, the light is great, I simply don't understand the processing leading to this presentation. Is it simply what it is? Cheers! Chris

This is a helluva composition, and I also think that the B&W presentation is the right one. Having said that though, it is my humble opinion that I'd like to see you push the white- and black-points just a skosh more. I don't know what you use to process images, but in Adobe you can use 'Curves' or 'Levels' and push both. You'll find that it punches up the image and gives you a full range of tones; and I'd start with the raw color image, and then covert it. Just my two cents, Michael, use it or lose it. Cheers! Chris

Yup!  I get your comment, Lynne; and, again, I maintain that there are two images here that present two completely different renditions of the same scene.  There is no right, nor wrong, just different.  Fortunately, art is viewed quite uniquely by each individual, and this simply happens to be Larry's vision.  Cheers! Chris

Larry, this is an excellent night image; and might I offer that you could 'kick it up a notch' with a judicious crop of the roof at the bottom. Removing that dark band really opens this up and makes it glow and emphasizes the FG plaza and cathedral and the eye just naturally wanders up into the fireflies of the lights in the BG. That crop gives it a Van Gogh-like quality IMO. Just my two-cents. Cheers! Chris

Leslie, this is really lovely--a veritable explosion of color! Nice and punchy too. Well done! Cheers! Chris

Frank, hey brother, how are you doing? Long time no see! Was this image made up in the White Mountains? I have been up there a couple of times and just love the photographic opportunities; and then there's the bonus of those incredibly ancient trees. Tough place to photograph though, you really gotta work for an image. I hope all is well. Cheers! Chris

Stephen, first of all, let me wish you the very best health-wise. I do hope that you are are well on the road to a full recovery on both fronts. Please keep me posted, as you are a special person to me. This image is simply a vintage photograph for you, and you do it so well--composition, exposure, processing, and so forth. I think it is truly a fine example of your photographic technique and is so incredibly representative of the habitats you frequent and live in. It is your photography that has continually convinced me that I need to spend some time up in the PNW and work a camera and tripod hard up there for a while and see what kind of trouble I can get into. Stay in touch, old friend! Cheers! Chris

Larry, clearly you are telling a story here and the train and the woman are part of the story. So, from that perspective, well done! Having said that though, I also believe that this grand vista invites a tight crop on the left side removing said train and female; the eye then naturally traverses the sinuous channel past the house and into the valley and out through the gap in the mountain ranges. Either way, it is a wonderful image; but certainly two very different images. A truly magnificent landscape! Cheers! Chris

Aivar, this is a very dramatic image with loads of visual interest. I like the way the eye is led naturally into the photograph via the channel. Great lighting conditions. Well done! Cheers! Chris

Ray, good eye to see this one. Well done! I love stuff like this.

Beautiful image, Ray! Very artistic, and gorgeous color palette!