Well, Mikel...I'm not taking any chances this time. I have commented twice on this shot and both times I've looked up after writing a couple of paragraphs. Just as I'm about to hit the "Post this Comment" button, I'm thrown back to the Caedes home page. I'm writing this in Microsoft Word and will paste it into place and save the Word file until I'm convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the comments are there. This is a fine shot and deserves a critique, but rarely is a photo so glorious that it deserves three critiques.
That being said, I'll give you the short version without the links. I statred with a comment complete with the appropriate link about how your "Short Tree Hill" shot was similar to my "The Hills of Summer". I then went on to say that I have a number of shots that looking mysteriously like this posting and then accused you of stealing a portion of Atascadero Lake in the making of this posting. I originally said that brilliant minds think alike. However, now that I've lost my comments twice, I'm no longer including myself in the brilliant minds group.
Beautifully executed shot. This is one of those shots that a hundred photographers would walk right passed without seeing. It takes a special eye to see the beauty in the simplest of forms. I sometimes accuse some Caedes photographers of looking like those bobble headed dolls with their heads spinning this way and that as they look up and down and behind them for a different perspective or that illusive perfect shot that they just didn't see. This is an awesome example of seeing the beauty in a shot that nobody else noticed.
Now I will perform a spell check and try to transfer this to Caedes. I'd better hurry because I'm sure there will be a power outage any second now.