-- Adrian Sorescu (guide@dial.roknet.ro), August 06, 1998

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This is a great shot. Clouds are surreal, color is bad ass, and the foreground reeds/flowers are a perfect lead in (this is very similar, in composition, to the other recently posted photo with the tree and {controversial} super flat horizon, but this one is FAR superior). Only quibble is I might have totally removed the tree trunk to the left, rather than include just half of it, and let the treetop snake in from nowhere. Was a sepia filter used or something? And the sun is just completely SANS flare. Very skillful/lucky/possibly altered (looks like there are little artifacts around it)? Crap, now here i go accusing someone of altering stuff (jeeze, paranoia's rampant about this stuff).

-- Lyn Lord (LynLord@aol.com), August 06, 1998.

Very nice shot! I would have liket to see a bit more of the tree on the left, but I suspect you had to crop it this tightly because it was branching of further to the left?

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), August 06, 1998.

No manipulation ;no filters ; no cropping ;just one shot with my 200mm lens , a Pentacon 200mm/4 stopped down to f16 (f22).Yes I'm pleased with it when shooting into the sun. ON the left side of the tree there were branches too.I thought this was best framing I can get with 200mm. The print has more contrast and a lot more colors(especially the sky you can see through the branches) Thanks for feedback !

-- Adrian Sorescu (guide@dial.roknet.ro), August 07, 1998.

I like the tree trunk as it is. I think it is very good framing for this scene (the tortuous outline of the trunk is very ipmressive). Without the trunk or with more tree it wouldn't be so good IMO.

-- Stanislav Kaczor (stanislav.kaczor@kabelplus.cz), August 07, 1998.

Nice photo. The leaves on the top and the wildflowers on the bottom do a nice framing. Cropping off the bludging trunk might help. But still lovely shot.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 18, 1998.

From a composition point of view it would be better if the sun were much higher. This could be fixed with PhotoShop. Stiil, I don't care. I like it a lot.

-- Thomas B. Roach (sigint@thegrid.net), December 15, 1999.