Thanks for the kind words everyone. Am thrilled that this image has done so well. It's not cropped at all, just flipped and shadows/saturation adjusted.
Had a wonderful trip to Washington state 10 days ago, and all my challenge entries that week came from that trip, on the fly. Work's been crazy since then, and were it not for NiallOTuama's wonderful Android Widget, I probably wouldn't have even known how my entries were scoring.
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Interesting how he looks like he's floating in the air, when the image was inverted. The original is very pretty, but this flipped version is dreamy. Congrats on your ribbon!
The sign of an effective compisition is how well it works flipped any way. This works well any way. Love the orqange boatman embedded in the green color field. 6
Beautiful. The blues and greens in this are amazing. This is a little nitpick, but I feel like it may have been composed a little better if your water line weren't so close to the bottom of the frame. Still, crazy good. 9