Wow this is a great photo. I really like how you captured the contrast between the suns glow and the white snow. The reflections are great as well. GJ!
WOW that is so beautiful... just love winter scenes and this one is amazing.. love the way you captured the light through the trees... high score and favs for me... love it
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--Charles Dickens
What a beautiful capture! Everything's so perfect in this picture: the color contrasts, the foreground and background, composition, depth, focus, and the motif. Like fire and ice. I can almost imagine being there and drinking in the sight of this untouched wintery landscape suffused with amber light.
I hate to be predictable but all the cool buzz-words have been used ... Beautiful ...(blah blah) ... Warmth ... (blah blah) ... Composition ... (blah blah) .... All those words come from me as well, with all the loving spin I can muster .... BUT ...
(/rant on)
I feel like a Tank commander waiting for 'cloven hoof' clan to come breaking through the trees. I'm not a fan of frames (a pet peeve) but this is more cropped\focused\contraining than that. I want to look around and you've told me I can't. Is there an art teacher out there telling students to create tension by cropping to wide-screen perspective. When has 'Tension' ever been good.
(\rant off)
It's your artistic vision and I do respect your work. Please continue. (*ducks)
Everything that everyone has said and more. Very, Very nice Great Job. 1 in a million. Don't worry about Keifer he always rants like that and he means nothing by it. 10/10!
a great visual romp through a real fantasy land. Where did you take the picture and what kinda camera? How lond did you have to wait for the right moment? Half the adventure is behind the scenes.
Thank you my friends!....:-)
To answer the question from mrpun46. This photo is taken outside my hometown Lycksele in Swedish Lapland, with a Konica Minolta A2, and a just came in the right time for this fine moment ..;-)
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I love this magnificent photo but I'm inclined to agree with Keith about the framing in this case. I use the widescreen framing myself on occasion but usually with more of a panoramic view, and when cropping it isn't cutting out much but more of the same. In this picture I feel like there's more trees and more reflections to be seen. On the other hand, the framing does fit nicely with the long horizontal stretch of the bridge so I see where you were going with that. I don't suppose you have an original un-cropped version of this masterpiece you'd be willing to share (batting eyelashes)... :). I must say though, that cropping and all this still gets a 10 from me, just an amazing scene captured~
oh man, i havnt seen an image from you in a while, this is SO good! And its very very cool how you did the same picture a year later. (this one is way better though)
AAAHHHH!!! Beautiful!!
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Beautiful! Great luminous catch of color coming thru the trees. Love the calm essence of water, adds to the tranquillity of the whole picture. Terrific job!!!!!
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Wow...I clicked on it butwas expecting the rather ordinary beautiful winter image...but the wonderful color takes it over the top (rather than just nearly black and white would).
hey i love this one to.only thing i would change is the top and bottom black frame work. make it a full shot and it would be a perfect image. full screen of this beauty will be perfect.
This.. this is heavenly! MAn, to catch the golden glow of the sun to light beckground to this simple and yet so mystical scene.. envy creeps up almost instantly. Man, a perfect shot!
Maybe the pic should show less of the water and more of the treeline to be even better, but that is a question of tastes, and the fact that this is a great photo is.. well, a fact!
this amazing! The pure white snow looks even more beautiful with the soft, warm light in the back.
Thanks for sharing and straight to my favs!
also my new desktop!