Interesting you say this is about composition, as it doesn't do much for me, I'm sorry :) But I like the textures and the shapes made by the sand against the wood. I like the colour processing too.

What I like best about this shot is the smoothness of the sky compared with the sharpness of texture. All closed in monochromatic between blues and cyans - really nice shot:-)

Hi David. I wanted to say a belated happy birthday to Libby and my best wishes for this next year. I'm very pleased that she's feeling better. And I also wanted to thank you for your continuing daily "share" or contribution - I think i'm addicted!

Ok, 2 for 2...I can't ait for tommorrows shot and it'll be a hattrick!

Wonderful - I much prefer this to yesterday's - though not quite sure why. Perhaps it's a little less disturbing - if that makes sense.

Mais tes photos sont extremment retouchées ou quoi?

I definitely liked yesterdays shot more. This shot is a little too flat looking for my liking. However I think this would be one of those shots that would look printed translucent and back-lit. It would glow nicely.

A crop per chance? I like the overall tone, not sure about the blank sky. Am I right in the presumption that were this not converted it would be a blank sky of uniform white? I hate shooting in the British climate. That blanket cloud cover I find difficult to manage. Any tips, I can only think of a graduate nd filter but upon saying that nothing seems to combat this.

i like the color!

I really like the somber feel of this one. Nice tones.

Very nice post-processing, I like the tone.
& a quick question: How do you add a vignette to your photos?

Ben: I normally use a masked curve. Draw a selection a small way in from the border, invert the selection, feather it by 200-250px, then use a Curve to adjust the selected area.

I like the picture. It is plain but I like it. In Lima, Peru, we have to deal with a dull white sky from April to November even though it never rains...! It gets very boring but one learns to shoot avoiding skies. Impossible to combat. Did you apply vignetting or some kind of gradient tool to make the sky look darker?

Simple and nice. I always like the tones you choose for your pictures. The colors always seems to fit perfectly with the images.

Nice shot. Just looked at John's version and the colours on his really interest me but there's something about the vignetting on yours that seems really peaceful. Normally vignettes add a bit of moodiness, at least that's how I tend to use them, but here it makes the shot seem much more serene and balanced.

And another quick question - do you tend to do mono shots as duo/tri/quadtones or do you have another means which is perhaps quicker or better? Or does it depend entirely on the shot and/or how you feel that day?

Nice shot. I have been visiting your site for couple of months and I have liked all of your shots. I am also inspired by your dedication. I would also like to wish speedy recovery to your wife. I also have a question on your workflow and what do you keep in mind while saving images for web. Do you go with a fixed pixel width or ?

Thank you,
pk.

Jamey: occassionaly I use Hue/Saturation to tone an image, but more often than not I use a Curve.

pk: I have a set of sizes that I use for different aspect ratios: 800px wide for 3x2 images, 700 for 4x3, 900 for 2x1 and 700 for square images.

...same place, different view (John Washington), I prefer this one!

I think that the second one is better :D (yes, yes i did it again :P)

ps: you're a cheat - I've changed the file name ;-)

Great post process , beutifull final work

So you are back to the same treatment of images. A fe weeks ago you posted a lot of images with similar tints of greens. Looks nice. I'd have liked to see the coloured version of this shot too.

such a cool feeling. the lighting and hues are fabulous. This is fine art photography.

ahh! I wondered what had happened to your 'photography for airports' stuff. nice stuff.

looks like a beautiful wall-poster you can buy in the store. but what i like moste on this one is this great aqua tone you use here :) take care

Lovely colour and shade to it...
The one thing that puts me off the shot though is the missing end of the wooden object on the right of the picture, it just doesn't look "complete" to me.

djn1: don't worry, that's just my ordinary occupation :-) a cheat? don't put it that way.

The wood grain is a little bit to slight for me...but the two colored version is good. Like the color

Nice cool tones.

Hi Dave,
Great colour tones here again, however, my only concern is that the groyne does not run horizontally. It reminds me of your 'rusty pole' shot from a while back which gave me the same feeling. Strangely off-putting. Like Rhys I had been wondering about your 'Photography for Airports' series after your stunning opener, this one is not quite in that class, but if it was horizontal maybe it could be!

Sysagent: as you'll see from the shot I put up later today the wooden object you refer to continues quite a way down the beach; i.e. I couldn't include it in the shot.

ps: my comment was meant to be humorous - apologies for any offence.

Paul: the groyne actually runs slightly downhill - from top-left to bottom-right - so in this shot it's slanted in the wrong direction. You might be right though, a horizontal orientation might have worked better.

I like the color(s) and, like mentioned before, the differences in texture. Your work is very good Chromo! I always want to ad slogans in it. Great campain shots.

Wonderful color wash. Like it much better than the following day's.