Very very nice shot, great colors! The character in the lower left part is tiny but has a great presence!

If you would like to have your images appear correctly you can use the latest Firefox 3 beta. Just navigate to the url 'about:config' (no quotes) and change the value for gfx.color_management_enabled from false to true. That should make Firefox take into account the embedded color profile and show the photo as it's supposed to be shown.

Oh and that's another wonderful shot obviously :D

I use safari and i think the colours are just great! (i don't use firefox, so i can't compere it)

love the sense of scale, and of course the burst of color.

hey I was wanting to put a comment box similar to yours on my own site. have any tips, url's you could share with me to get me going?

thanks

On a PC (XP) the colour rendition in Safari, Intern*t Exploder, Firefox and Opera are all exactly the same (I tried it on two monitors) , but bizarrely firefox makes the image bigger.

This is very beautiful, great comp. and the graduated oranges capture the eye.

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It renders I little flatter in Safari on the iPhone than the same on my Macbook but the shot still looks great. I regularly check the blog from my iPhone and I'm pleased to report your shots make the phone look much better!

Dave a very bold colour statement... something I'm not sure I could be that confident in making myself, also did you intentionally crop the shadow as a part of the 2x1 crop, or was it tight to the bottom of the frame?... just wondering..... csj @ id7.co.uk

I've used Firefox for years and had no idea that it interpreted colors differently. I opened Safari just to test on this image and I was blown away. It'll take more than that to get me to switch browsers though! ;-) But I'm glad FF3 will fix the issue, just one more reason in a very long list to look forward to that version. Anyway, thanks for bringing the color issue to my attention. Terrific image, by the way. Even in Firefox! I love the use of negative space.

i may just be very stupid, but why is this called 8 minutes 20 seconds?

Thomas: thanks, I'll download the beta.

Corey: email me.

alex: the size of the image varies with the size of your browser's window, so it may be that your Firefox window was larger than with the other browsers you were using.

Adrian: thanks :-)

Craig: sorry mate but I'm not sure I follow your question about the crop.

si: when I started posting images back in 2003 I thought it would be a good idea to add a title for each one. The problem though, 1370 images later, is that I can't always think of a title so tend to come up with something related, but not immediately obvious. In this case, it's the time it takes sunlight to reach the earth – which seemed fitting for a sunset.

Tested in Firefox 3 Beta 3, Opera, Safari and IE7 browsers and the colors look the same... rich and vibrant as always. Didn't try Firefox 2.

By the way, Chromasia was mentioned in the world famous Matt Kloskowski's "Lightroom Killer Tips" blog. :-)

Here's the link: http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/friday-stuff/

I have a 24" NEC LCD monitor for photo editing. As the photo was opening in my Firefox browser, one word formed in my mouth and I said ....

Wow!

That all I going to say about this outstanding photo. :)

wow! love the color. complimented well with the textures.

Oddly enough I can't spot the difference between Firefox & Safari, maybe a very slight bit more depth to safari, but the same impact.
This is a great shot, simple but effective!

Re: Craigs question about the crop, I had the same thought. The head of the shadow is cropped out of the photo and wondered if this was intentional or if it was out of the original frame.

On a side note, a ramblers leaflet just dropped out of a magazine and not only did I recognise blackpools 'Keep Out' signs, but its one of yours! First Digital Camera magazine, now flyers, popping up everywhere now!

OK fair enough, I think Bambography summed it up a little better for me....... was the head of the shadow cropped, was it in the frame, did you crop the shadow on purpose, was it a concsious / artisitic reason, or just one of those things that happens.... csj

Craig: it was in the frame, but wasn't especially distinct against the dark sand. That said, a 3k2 crop of this one didn't work, nor did the 16x9 with more of the bottom of the frame included. In this sense I guess that the composition is a bit of a compromise.

Superb light

wow, great colors.

Hiya Dave - gorgeous image, with the ubiquitous and effective lone spectator...

But on my iMac it looks exactly the same in both Firefox and Safari...? As in, EXACTLY the same. The colour-calibration plot thickens!

Actually - one aspect does look slightly different in Firefox - it's smaller!

/gives up trying to understand browsers

Thanks all.

As for the Firefox thing: I suspect this may be a Mac only problem.

Hi Dave - I once spent couple of days poring over the SmugMug articles about the problems of using a Mac and getting the colours to work right between Safari and Firefox, but seriously, I'm on a Mac using both those browsers, and while the Firefox version is a slightly smaller image (regardless of window size), I swear I don't see even a discrepancy between the two versions colour-wise.

Is your screen colour calibrated using a profile tool such as Spyder? Are you on Leopard yet? Maybe these things play a part. Otherwise I'm at a loss, because I know what you mean, having seen the problem for myself on my Tiger-equipped system in the past. I don't know what's changed.

Beauitful!

This is beautiful, Dave. So soft and sweet.
But the scale is what grabbed me.

Hello, and Bravo!
Thank you for all your work outlined here, on this site wonderful and rich photographic your eye, which is a model for me since ...
For quite some time, in fact!
And why not post that now ... Certainly for me to thank you so much inspiration!
See you soon.
(Sorry for my English disastrous)

Love the wideangle in this one, it gives alot of atmosfere!

First of all, congratulations on the picture, sunsets are indeed one of the most beautiful things Natures brings us.
In another though, this picture illustrates my current mood: I'm so small in such a big world. How can I make a difference?