Author try to remove one of the entries.....The anonymity would be lost and that would be negative for you....Good luck. Also could you just please teach me how did you do this? Photographing lightening is real tough and pleasing if you learn it.....I would wait for your reply. If you dont want to share in public please send me a message....

beautiful

nice capture, wonderful lightening shot here

Love lightning storms! This is beautiful with the reflections in the water.

Wow! Nice 1! GL!

Nice shot ! It's so hard to catch a nice lightning shot ! It's done here !

Great catch! Good job

beautiful!

very very good

Very nice capture...gl

Very nice. Great moment.

Nice final score, 66.6%

Wow.

Glorious..

it is very veru nice,good luck

this is one of the WOW...well done author...best of luck

Very nice sky!

wonderful shot

I live in Sacramento...don't get much snow. Also new to photog...I am assuming that is snow in the background. How or what did you do to make it look this way? It looks kind of "furry" (sorry for the odd description). Thanks.

This is a magnificent photo. I live in Northern Minnesota and have seen my share of blizzards. You have masterfully captured the desolate mood and pure beauty of a genuine winter snow storm. Well done!

Thank you very much. Gigi, I didn't do anything special here. The snow was thick, and falling hard, hence the "furry" look = ) The light source was coming from the right only, and I think that helped show the snow. Athousandwords, thank you, I truly got lucky here, right place, right time.
Friiskiwi, thank you for your nice comment.

It looks so surreal. I really think it is such an interesting shot. Thanks for sharing.

Absolutely fantastic ! Even the ground is great ! It's my own vision but I feel like I'm in a Tim Burton movie watching your Picture ! Good luck !

Thank you guys very much. I was coming back from work, and since I'm so addicted to taking pictures, I bring my camera with me everywhere. Sometimes it really works out =)

Awesome shot. Looks surreal!

very nice ,good luck

very good shot...best of luck author

Why gee, who could this be?

HDR? Very nice!!!!!!!!!!!

Good eye, but it's not true HDR. I tone mapped a single RAW file. You get more noise that way but by doing it from 1 image you can get "HDR" action shots and most importantly your entry can't be removed for "Putting together a new picture from various other pictures"

LOL... figured it was from one image simply due to the waves. Great job..... noise isnt too bad. Wonderful colors. Well done. I have a weakness for "HDR" like images.

Pretty blurry. Looks over edited.

The blurriness is intentional, I wanted this to have a soft look so that when tone mapped it would have oil painting look to it. Not all photos have to be completely sharp. In this case there is acceptable sharpness for the style I was trying to convey. As far as it being over edited that's a matter of opinion.

decidedly different and it does have the oil painting quality to it...overall a good entry, well done author, the single shot HDR is an interesting solution to the multi-exposure ban...

I have to disagree, I find it too blurry, the colours appear unnatural, and i didnt realise the multi exposure ban was actually in effect.

Would be great to see the original photo

Well it seems that yet again a key point in one of my photos that I found to be artistically appealing isn't viewed like I had hoped Well I suppose to each his own.

I'd be happy to supply the original image to the mod for clarification if they would like.

Author, the fact I'm a mod doesn't mean I'm asking to see the original as a mod. I'm a graphic mod and am just a member in the photocontests. The reason I asked is just pure interest and part of my learningcurve.

Please do not be offended.

Rob, I wasn't offended in any way. I'm sorry it came across that way. If you'd like to see it PM me and let me know where you'd like me to send it

I think this is beautiful. What is tone mapping?

I'm sorry not everyone views this like you'd hoped...I think it is positively stunning. I love HDR!

Simply amazing...well done

very nice image -- a toss up between this and your other for a fav

It came out perfect for what you had intended. I don't favorite many but this i had too!!!

Wow... I hope you stepped back into the doorway in time

wow, awesome capture, bet you were running inside right after this shot. = )

wonderful, this is definitely dramatic weather.

Thanks. We certainly were all running inside ASAP. Everyone was rushing around either closing windows and turning off air conditioners or trying to get photos then closing windows etc. I left it a bit late to go inside and got very dusty

Holy ........

perfect!

wow!!!

Now that's an awesome find. Well done! GL!

EDIT: although this is an awesome find, after looking again I find that if you rotated the horizon (the edges of the houses tilt to the left) it would really make this shot perfect. Just plumb the edges of the houses. GL again!

Excellent shot but needs a straighten up..

gr8 shoot

That's incredible!

Thanks for the comment guys. Unfortunately I don't have any programs that I can edit my photos with. I'm still very new to photography

Upload Picasa 3, it's free & easy to use!

Truly a dramatic weather.. Thats a perfect capture. GL author

Fabulous capture author,and tell me please,did u run after u made this photo...