Hey, thanks everyone! Wasn't expecting so many kind comments on this, especially after the competition has ended! I'm happy to have done as well as I have in such a tough field of excellent photos, and thanks for all the "favorites" votes, too! :)
Can it truly be that only 8 other people gave this a ten?! This should seriously have placed MUCH better! I'm so disappointed. But top ten percent isn't bad. Great work.
I keep coming back to look at this photo - it's really just gorgeous. This is tied with one other for my top pic and if one of those two doesn't win I'm staging a protest.
Given a 10 on my first pass through, which I very rarely do. Just fabulous. Into my favs it goes. 10, just-married
Back for another look at this shot - it has a very "painterly" feel to, and the fog gives it such a mysterious look. I like the balance of the composition, and the fact that even though it is color, it almost looks like a hand-tinted black and white. This isn't one of those "drop-dead wow" shots, but it is one that the more you look at it, the more questions you have about what you see. Definitely a story there.
I don't know if this is real or post processed up the ying yang but I like it all the same. The softness of the colors and the dominance of gray is really cool.