When I opened this one up at it's largest size, it didn't all fit on my screen and was sort of "self-cropped," giving me a different view and idea. So I pulled a copy of the largest size off and cropped it down, severely. I also discovered that the original size of this photo was only 28 dpi (at least that's what I saw when I brought a copy into Photoshop - it could have happened in the translation). That's the danger in submitted images that are so low in resolution that they get locked into that size and not much can be done with them. I process my shots at 600 dpi so that if anyone wants to do a crop on the original, they can do so without the image losing it's resolution integrity. The crop that I made went from the far bottom left corner, up to just below the horizon line, and not quite to where the sun is burning away the image. I also did a single tweak in Levels to remove the haze created by the sun and brought the waves back to what they must have looked like when you took the shot. The result has a very different character, a view seldom seen at Caedes, and a visual realization of a simple concept: you don't need an over-bright sun in the photo, just the suggestion of the sun for viewers to understand it's a sunset. The result has a lot more variation in color in the wave and a gradual increase in warmth in the upper right corner that let's the eye understand that the sun is just off-screen. Nowadays, graphically-explosive movies constantly try to one-up the previous movies by having more blood, more realistic monsters, computer-aided and mind-blowing special effects, but a classic rule of thumb has been lost by the movie people: nothing is better than the human imagination in creating the emotion one hopes to elicit by art. By cropping this image of yours down (and don't mistake my intent, Christophe, it is a good shot), it is the human imagination that places the sun in context with the photo, and stimulating the human imagination is usually a good thing. Oh, and did I mention I hate leaving short, empty comments that are not a true critique of the image? 8D

WOW Christophe, Magnificent capture and love those marvelous colours and the way the waves are creating almost like pleats. So beautiful

Nice capture of that evening golden light as it gently lights the currents.