Wild Sunset

I like the pastels of teh sky and water being mimiced by the rock.  Well seen.

Really beautiful palette of soft colors, Mark. My only (very minor) suggestion would be to desaturate just a bit the red area in the foreground rock, as, to me, it appears too prominent and distracts from the gorgeous sky and water tones.

very fine. Soft colours and transitions; only I too find a little prominent the frontal rock with its so strong saturation.
I would appreciate larger dimensions to appreciate the kind and quality of the sharpness.
All the best,
sandro

Coasts like these are the best, scattered with large rocks. You never know what you're going to find. Maybe darken the sky a bit too bring out that nice pattern in the clouds? This looks good as is though, the colors are really nice!

Thanks for the feedback guys. These rocks were deposited here at the edge of Long Island Sound after the last glaciation - they could be rocks from much farther north, in fact they are very similar to the colorful rocks you might see at Acadia National park in Maine. The wonderful light really brought out the colors and I left the red in the fg rock as-is. Does anyone else find it too distracting?

On my calibrated monitor, I think the rock saturation levels are fine but I am less a fan of centered subjects and wouls like to see this with the larger rocks moved slightly to the left.

I like th combination of pink/orange and blue in the water and sky on the one hand and the brown/orange and gray in the rocks on the other hand. I could do with a little less stone but I like the image as presented.

Mark,
This is very nice. These tonalities under soft light are beautiful.

Wonderful tones, contrasting all the detail in the rocks with the flat colors on water and sky.  Beautifully seen and captured.

Love the pink sky and blue earth's shadow Mark.  I have only seen a pink glow like this at St. Ann's Bay in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.  I love the light and color.

Mark,

For me, this is a tale of two halves... sky? or rock?  Unlike your previous entry where the foreground driftwood was clearly the primary subject, here I'm not sure which is the subject and my eye wants to ping-pong back and forth.  I absolutely love both halves here, with the great color, earth shadow and calm reflection in the water - vs. the color and detail of the rocky shore.  If it were mine, I would sacrifice maybe 1/2 of either the top or bottom for some weighted balance to let the viewer know which part of the scene you were attracted to.  I love the color and detail of everything, just don't think the 50/50 comp works as well.

Lon

Mark, I love the soft light and beautiful colors which do look natural to me. I could see the crops mentioned working fine but it works quite nice for me as it is here as well. I would love to see this in a high resolution file just to appreciate the details and textures those rocks must have. 

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Hi  Mark   This  minimalist  scene  is  well.  captured.... agree with Dave. the soft color tones and light are beautiful..

Albert Darmo
Canada

The pastels in the sky along with the water are stunning and they work nicely with the rocky shoreline, Mark. The saturation of the rocks look fine to me. I could also see this working with a crop of about half of the rocks so they became secondary to that beautiful sky. Just a suggestion of course because this is fantastic as is.

Ed