I absolutely love this picture....Great work!!

Stunning detail on the wheat. GL!

Great shot, I was just wondering but I thought I noticed some post-shot digital sharpening in the HR?

amazing details, good luck

thanks all for the kind comments. Jtpobrien, I shoot in raw format and generally I don't have to do extra sharpening when I take it in to lightroom or camera raw. This one I didn't have to do any sharpening luckily, just adjusted the black levels to deepen tones and added clarity. Thankyou for your inquiry though, hope that was what you wanted to know.

jtpobrian: look at the rules and guidelines
"What tools/alterations MAY I use?
As a general rule, you are allowed to all adjustments which act on the whole picture and on exactly one picture (a.k.a. non selective editing).
This includes:
level,
curves,
hue,
saturation,
color adjustments/shifting,
brightness,
contrast,
Gaussian blur,
noise reduction,
sharpness,
Crop and rotate,
Lens correction,
Camera raw editing,
Healing brush to remove dust and scratches from a scan or speckles from dust on your camera's sensor,
Duplicated layers,
Layer blending modes"

Very nice shot! You might consider cropping just a little off the left so the guy isn't quite so centered

Very Cool! GL!

Didnt bruce springsteen do something like this?

Congrats for your second place, Dollmommy!