An outstanding capture. The composition, depth and color are awesome. Very well done.

Thanks Daniel! Glad you like ;)

Love how you composed this one.


Caveats?

Well, I am not sure just what is transpiring at the horizon's edge.

For lack of a better term.. my eyes are detecting some 'fringing'.

Could be the result of what Paul Gerritsen talks about in this constructive critique, and I quote;

"You seem to know what you are doing, but when I look at you camera settings there is one point you could improve. When you use f36 you cannot obtain a sharp image anymore. That is due to chromatic aberration. In optics, chromatic aberration is caused by a lens having a different refractive index for different wavelengths of light (the dispersion of the lens).
I don't want to go in details here, but simply said there is a minimum aperature above which a higher f number will not improve you sharpnes anymore. That number is about f11. Maybe you want to experiment with your lens to see were you get the best results."

Or.. maybe during resizing/resampling?

Resulting in.. somewhat ... of an 'over-sharpened' image?


Still, and with that said.. really enjoy this one. I like how you have encapsulated the look and feel of the land in pixels here.

Thank you. lol, you're absolutely right! *busted*. The orignal shot was ok, I took it with a wide angle lens, I didn't need to zoom in that much though so the image was already quite sharp.

But yes I did sharpen the image in PS. Probably wasn't such a good idea. I may have overdone it. um. I probably should have taken more time to work on these pics. I can be quite impatient and impulsive at times ;)