Another great shot Donald, The trees have produced a lovely effect and the side lighting has again brought out some great shadows.
Cheers Steve

It is a great light on this photo.I allready seeing it in B/W,try.Like it.

Very nice!

wow...great shot. For my taste the hill/mountain and the water are a bit overdone (bluish cast)

The backlight make trees really stand out. I would think it is heavily post-processed image, but then I am not sure. c-8080 captures really great colors.
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Thanks for the comments and kind words. My photo preferences continue to evolve. I used to strive for realism but now I'm more interested in a pleasing effect. I liked my darkroom but I'm positively in love with PhotoShop, so all my pics get at least some contrast and saturation adjustment as well as noise removal and sharpening. I agree the background is too blue. That's the good thing about shooting raw, you can go back to what the ccd recorded and tweak it an infinite number of different ways. Hmm....B/W now there's a thought.

Well done Donald...In Australia we have a whole mountain range called the Blue Mountains and thats exactly what it looks like......regards bevellee

I knew this was shot in RAW, even before I saw the image data. Only RAW gives you such colours and such light. JPEG is very limited here. As another example, here is a gallery shot in RAW with an 8080:
http://www.molon.de/galleries/China/Shanghai/NPudong/

Agreed Alfred. For dynamic range raw is the way. Too bad about the 8080's lame buffer. Same thing with Sony's new R1. BTW I'm a big fan of your beautifully crafted panos.

bert

Beautiful shot. As above, the wind and the willows really cooperated on this one. Those leaves/ branch lines look almost like brush strokes. I think the blue works well with the yellow.