I really like this, just a shame you cant see it all on screen at once. Great shot though, GL

wow, awesome capture, well done author!

This is cool!! Too bad the towers weren't closer to each other.

Amazing ... really amazing

wow

WOW

Good Photography sense

Wow, truly amazing, what a great idea. My head is spinning = )

Awesome.. how did you take this shot?

yeah wow!!

It's a 180° panoramic image made of 11 shots taken without tripod in a beautiful September day of the past year.

wow

I think you beat this one! Great and powerful,

congrats .... great pic

Thank you all!!!

Nice 1! Very competitive entry. GL!

I hate to be the one to bring it up... but since this isn't a just single shot ("It's a 180° panoramic image made of 11 shots" as per author)... is it legal? I hope so cuz its a great shot. I am just asking for clarification. Still getting a high vote from me!

this is NOT photoshopped..this is one of those continuous photos... my two cents... LET IT STAY... it's absolutely brilliant... it's perfectly obvious what the author did.. and did it brilliantly... awesome

Oh yeah.. I can see the entire picture in high res if I don't enlarge it.. that's amazing too by the way.. good luck author

This HAS to be photoshopped (for stitching purposes). There is no camera I know of that combines 11 shots (per author) into one. I have a point & shoot thats does panoramas with 3 shots (all in camera) but this is wasn't done that way.

Please don't misunderstand.... I gave this a high score and hope it stays... I just want clarification from the author and mods. If this is okay then it opens up the door for more types of pics.... panoramas, HDR, etc.

I think that stitching is not the same as photoshopping (made on camera or not)... it is the same as having an ultra-wide (and ultra expensive) lens. If stitching is not allowed, cutting should be the same. These operation doesn't alter the nature of the shot (like cloning and hue manipulation), but just improve it. But this is my opinion, and obviously I am not objective with myself! Decide serenely!!!

I am with you on this.... trust me. I have to agree that stitching is not the same as what can be done in photoshop but it is still an image manipulation. It is not the same as having an ultra wide angle lens however, simply due to the fact that lens wasn't used. With this logic I could make a "fake tilt-shift" photo in photoshop and say, "its the same as using an expensive tilt-shift lens". Cutting is different than stiching simply because you are taking away and not adding. By stitching you in fact did "alter the nature of the shot" by adding more shots to the original.

Okay..... in summary... I LIKE THE SHOT AND IT SHOULD STAY!!! I just wanted clarification because I am a huge fan of HDR and have always had to defend some of my shots. In my opinion HDR is the same idea... making a photo with light and dark areas better by bringing the dynamic range up more to what our eyes can see and the camera can't

I'm with captgeo, this is image manipulation but I think it should be allowed to stay as well as HDR shots. The rule that includes photo stitching and HDR should be done away with, it isn't changing the picture or adding to it, it's simply combining several images, a practice that is widely accepted in the photo world an is allowed on every other photo site out there.

This is great... i am glad this one is the winner... pretty much says "stitching is fine". Which leads to other things being "fine".

Congrats on placing. It was definitely one of the best.

WOO HOO

Congrats for your first place, Creser!

Congrats, this really is quite amazing

Epic shot. Great job and congratulations!

absolutely Brilliant... Congrats..

beautiful contrast , and i love the way the building kinda blends into the grass. Great shot.

superb............love the colors, and the way, as Mekun says, that the house blends into the grass...........brilliant.

Nice find author

Seen this before, still love it.

Nice colors and POV but leveling the horizon (the tracks) wouldn't hurt. GL!

thank you all very much for your comments.

Congrats!

Congrats for your second place! I love this one

Congrats, great stuff!

Wow!!! What a photo! Congratulations buddy!

i like this..

Those are some awesome poles

Great perspective

really great shot and angle.

great shot!!

you must have a high advantage

lol k5683, I was on top of my horse, on top of a mountain sometimes I take my trusty little point and shoot with me when I go riding ... 'cause you just never know

Agrees with all, well done!

Agrees with all, well done!

Congrats!

Congrats for your third place, Megan!

Nice silhouette!. GL!

stricking

the color of the sky! :O its beautiful. you caught this right at sunset didn't you???

Actually, no! Those are the city lights. This was taken in the middle of the night using the longest exposure time possible. I did curve the colors but just slightly to give it that aurora look to it.

wonderful, love the stars in the high res

wonderful, love the stars in the high res

Thank you for point that out, Friiskiwi. The stars are a lot more visible in high res.

Lovely!

Very nice Author, the only suggestion I have is that I would like to have seen more DOF, but other than that this is well done