You are quite right, but for got to read the goal, no street performers.

This is a little further around the coast from my photos location. Magic place. Great pic

A little flat, IMO I would give it a bit more contrast.

Amazing view!

Correct, called 'growth rings' each ring is 1 year, but, not a wood knot...sorry author

It does, but it's not the same as a wood knot

Very nice

Very nice capture, beautiful atmosphere =)

love the way the droplets outline the flower in the bottom dark part - so .. mysteriously romantic!!

Love the light, actually I love every thing about it.

Really like the lighting on this one. GL

I love the way this picture captures, darkness as well as light and the detailed water droplets

Great photo, and I love the lightening in the background.

Beautiful photo! Congrats on your 1st place!

Congratulations for having the best 'bad' photo, LOL

Congratulations on 1st place and for all over top Photo.

lovely.....

breathtaking, good luck!

I too have tossed many shots like this. Right there but just does not POP for prints, but again hard to delete.
IMO the tree is ok but i do feel your pain.
Good luck Author.

Love the mood of this one

It seems to be tilted to the left some but very nice HDR. STrong but pretty effective.

The lighting of the feathers is enchanting, with the tail illumination doing a wonderful job of separating bird and trees. It came out fine, really!

This is a rather good photo, so how is one to vote for it?

Amazing light

You do realize you can edit out all that junk. This photo is an amazing shot, and I really don't think that it fit the theme because it CAN be fixed. I interpreted the theme as photos you really like that you just can't really do anything with, but you still like

Congratulations on second, lovely view and very good HDR effect

I'm not sure how this is an orphan photo. What's wrong with it? Not saying it isn't, just that I don't see how you think it is.

beautiful

Great sky and love the light on the tree.

Stunning

Beautiful

Great perspective - good you kept it!

Like this -- the only unfortunate thing with this is the buildings which with a bit of work in photo shop you could remove -- worth the work but of course then you could not use it in a photo competion

very nice image -- maybe rotate a bit to make the horizon more horizontal

Beautiful!

Very nice concept of lighting as well as the water view, great job!

very nice

sweet

Lovely !

sweet

Fantastic photo, but you better save it for an other time, goal says, 'Outside'

Very well done.

really lovely, such beautiful tones.

Great

Perfect

nice DOF -- like the mutes look of the colours

Very nice!

Great shot =)

can you please tell us the setup for this HDR shot ?
and what program you used for merging & noise reduction!!!!

The composition does a good job of making the lens distortion work. Nice photo.

Thanks