Awesome!

Beautiful and perfect timing. The angle you were able to capture everything at really makes it interesting.

Smashing

I'm speechless. Just staring at the picture for five minutes. Absolutely beautiful capture.

Great stuff really like this one

Its brilliant! But what the heck is it?

I'm going to stop posting for a while until I can see a subject in this way.... your eye for that was spot on, the angle is cool, the trick of the light is just right, and the finished result from the original is class.... csj

stunning one Dave.....the shot is soo well balanced in every sense,,,i like the way u have utilized the side lighting..

Definitely one for the retrospective exhibition in years to come. An excellent image on so many levels.

Great work !!

Your work is astounding. If you don't mind I am going to put a link to your photo blog up on my "inspiration" page. It's artists like yourself that inspire me to reach my potential each and everyday. Keep up the great work! I can't wait to see more!!

A little Daliesque--stretches the mind a bit.

You are totally correct about the lens flare, at least that was my exact impression when I first saw the photo. Well done, and the black and white makes it look amazing.

nice post-processing!

i always hear about that one perfect moment when everything comes together....guess, this roofs it is true. amazing.

It is interesting that this magnificent shot is so much better than the one you were trying to do. Your original pic is perfection, in angles and timing, capturing the vapor trails at just the right moment and getting two! The one you show us here is bettered only by the addition of a framed seagull, but is flawed with dwindling vapor trails and time has passed enough to catch the sun's flare.

Yet this is by far the superior shot. The jets would have diminshed this shot and the flare articulates the gull, bisects the other spreading angles, and brightens the shadow of the structure.

Art is such a wonderful thing!

Absolutely excellent shot.

brilliant shot!

Wow... excellent image!

Woah, I lost my breath over here! Love it.

Perfect composition! The bird definitely makes the shot ;-)

Great timing on the bird there! Feel free to share this on my photography forum -- my members would love to see this and it would be some great exposure for your photography as well.

This is wonderful - the angle, the dynamics, the skyt, the processing - everything! Yours knocks spots of something similar I tried last year!

absolutely incredible shot! in all aspects - composition, capture moment, concept, post-processing. This is the best photo I have seen in a while!

Excellent perspective and composition. Like all the lines and of course the sea gull is the icing on the cake.

Superb!
Thanks for sharing the original. I learn a lot from your posprosseing techniques.

Thanks all.

rhys: it's a part of a footbridge that runs across the road on Blackpool's seafront.

csj: bad move. When I find that I'm struggling to see the only way I can get out of it is by taking more photographs; i.e. there's something about looking through a viewfinder that can get you back to the place you want to be.

Whitney: thanks, and no, I don't mind.

Sharla: the shot I was trying to get was technically spot-on, but it lacked the aesthetic immediacy of this one.

Very nicely composed and I love this perspective. It's got great lines. I especially like the wispy clouds contrasting with the rough texture of the structure.

a bit late but agree w. RD- instant read is very Salvador Dali-like. Surreal! Success!

fantastic shot! what timming!

Powerful shot, the black and white works amazingly on this one!

Holy cow Dave....... It's shots like these that make me simultaneously want to give up cause there's no point trying to better this (!) or grab the camera, leave the day job and wander the streets!

That's a stunner.

well seen! and perfect in that toning