Not sure I like the sidewalk leading right out of the image but I had to work with the direction of the sun when I was there. I like that the sun made a nice starburst and the lens flare leads the eye back down into the picture. Kind of works for me. Better than anything else I got, anyway.
PP - cropped, tonemapped in qtpfsgui (pregamma 0.697, mantiuk method, contrast mapping 0.1, saturation factor 1.029, detail factor 1), merged with original in luminousity mode at 10% transparency, reduced noise, dodged and desaturated gull, touched up tons of sensor dust ::sigh::, white balance, increased saturation and contrast, resized, sharpened, blurred background sky more to remove slight banding, added border.
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I like this one. The sun doesn't "overwhelm" the image. The pic is clear, nice foreground, nice background. The sun accentuates/adds to the image; make me feel like I'm there taking a stroll on the boardwalk. Well done.
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