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mikhalych (1319) [2012-10-09 7:08]
One small correction - it is Ivan the Great bell tower. Named after Byzantine saint Ioannes (Ἰωάννης τῆς Κλίμακος). And it was built before the Peter the Great rule.
Nica shot but I would make some perspective corrections.

mikhalych (1319) [2012-08-15 4:34]
Very nice scenery, but there are some artefacts from post-processing - posterization around the sun and halos around the trees.

sekl (2063) [2010-12-09 9:33]
Hi Ann,

There is really good rhythm between the birds on the background and forground. I like Africa immensely.
Thank you for sharing.
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2010-12-07 6:49] [+]
Ersoy,

Very interesting photo. The sky is practically black. You are keen of using a tripod as I see. Thank you.
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2010-12-07 6:46]
Hello Ersoy,

A friend of mine visited Cuba two times already because of the things you have captured on this picture. The colors are beautiful. I like the rusty style of buildings and the old fasioned car. Thank you for sharing.
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2010-11-24 9:33] [+]
Hello Grazyna,
Your work is so graphical I thought it was a poster!
The arrow, the look and the hand are pointed in one direction and create motion of the shot.
Well seen!
Thanks for sharing.
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2010-11-21 0:58]
Incredible!
Very good tonally.

sekl (2063) [2010-11-21 0:47]
Merhaba Erhan,
I like the feeling of tranquility here.
Thank you for sharing,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-13 10:33]
Hi Alred,

You did it!
Congratulations!
It is really a decisive moment!
Wonderful view!

Regards,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-13 10:27]
Hi Dorian,

I like your foggy and moody picture.
The boats and the people most of all.

Regards,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-13 10:19] [+]
Hi Andre,

Interesting framing here.
I wonder how you managed to containg this high contrast into digital camera range.
Good job!

Regards,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-12 2:46]
Privet Maria,

It is a very 'calligraphic' image!
Well seen!

Regards,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-12 2:35]
Privet Diane,

It is really a story.
Well seen!

Regards,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-12 2:29]
Hi Giorgio,

What a bright image!
Impressionist's look!

Thank you,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-12 2:26]
Hi Sebastien,

I like this landscape very much!
Very esthetic!

Regards,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-11 2:16] [+]
Merhaba,

Very nice portrait indeed!
Thanks for the note too.

Regards,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-11 2:10]
Hi Bob,

Every detail on the tower is well seen.
Nice shot!

Regards,
Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-11 2:08]
Hi Emma!

Wonderful atmospheric effect here!
Good job!

Sergey

sekl (2063) [2009-08-06 2:20]
Ben,

Nice portret and good notes.
I guess it was difficult to focus the camera properly in this atmosphere :)

AdrianW (2274) [2008-10-05 21:39] [+]
Nice shot Janos! The sky's interesting, with lots of high wispy Cirrus clouds, and the pink tint to them adds just a touch of all three primary colours to your composition.

The sandstone bluffs make an interesting backdrop; and the trees towards the centre of the frame are nice too.

Compositionally I think I'd have liked a more obvious focal point; there are lots of elements here, but unfortunately to me they seem to be vying for attention, rather than forming a coherent story. If the sandstone is the subject, personally I'd like it to be more prominent in the composition I think. I might be tempted to crop the lower quarter off the bottom, as the cars in the car park don't add positively to the composition IMO. That said, composition is very much subjective, and how I see something can be very different to how anyone else will see it!

Something's not right technically though, unfortunately I'm having a hard time pinning it down precisely. The highlights on the trees seem to lack detail; particularly towards the right hand edge. Oddly the histogram looks reasonably sane; although you've slightly overexposed the sandstone itself, it's not a major issue for the majority of it. The histogram doesn't look chopped either, but it feels like a solarization/quantization type effect. Interestingly if you convert it to 256 colours, then there's very little change to the image; I'm wondering whether it accidentally got converted at some point? How did you process it?

P.S. Deleting your pictures is one way to guarantee no-one will visit them; martyrdom awaits you ;)

P.P.S. Panoramic format images are always a hard sell on the Trek sites and Flickr; as a 150px width thumbnail shows a lot less detail for panoramas. I'm sometimes tempted to shoot for square for that reason!