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Nice colours and sky. really wide angle would love to see somebody in this pic with so much evidence on the beach. Had this been otherwise it would have been just a plain simple calm natural scene - sand untouched, allone on the beach
The distortion suits the shot well. love the little details you manage to capture all the way in the background. A little lacking in maybe foreground interest. 7
Now this is what I dislike about HDR, taking a perfectly acceptable, tranquil scene with nice clouds and making it look like a disaster area. Good shot otherwise.
I like the scene, though I'm not a fan of the fisheye look for this image. It's a good effort to try and present a common scene in a different manner, but it does not seem to work for me. That of course, is just a personal preference thing, and I will be surprised if this entry does not soundly beat my own.
Interesting take on a standard beach scene. I think the fisheye has worked well for you here, it's turned what otherwise would be a fairly normal shot into something much more interesting.
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