Intense Reflection + Alternative Crop

Harley: One MUST view the large version. I love the blue highlights. I might be tempted to brighten this up a bit but that's advice coming from an unrepentant color junkie. Nicely seen and superbly captured. >=))>

Real nice Harley.  I also love the blue highlights and the mix of yellows with the metallic gold.  I'm on the fence about the dark left side.  If my memory serves me, a darker left side is becoming a trend.  Seriously, a cool abstract.

Harley,

Ahhhh, so that's what you were seeing and photographing!  It's amazing, and thankfully so, how we all see things differently, yet standing literally in the same location (not sure, you could have done this the next day after we left...) but regardless, you saw, envisioned and captured this abstract - and beautifully.  I love this!

I especially love the splattering of blue throughout. Great choice with the shutter speed which let you separate the variety of color.

Way to go - great "seeing" with this.

Lon

Opens up real nicely in the large view. Beautiful mix of reflected colors with just enough amount of texture in the water. The sort of natural beauty that most non-photogs would never observe. It looks a bit dark on my monitor so I could see brightening it up some.

Here is the version with the dark area on the left mostly cropped. Lon, you were standing a couple of feet to my right. Not that it matters, but the colors are very representational of what I could see while standing there. 

This is a wonderful abstract, Harley. I have tried, and failed to get nice reflections at this spot, and so I applaud your seeing and processing here. The color look natural to me, and the textures are excellent.

I like the original image with the dark area because the the nice curves of the reflection help with the dynamic.

Very nicely done, sir!
--P

Difficult choice, but I think I like the repost a bit more. It's better balanced and more abstract than the original. On the other hand the original gives a better sense of what we're seeing. The repost is more of a collection of colors, shapes, and tones. The strong blues seem more appropriate in the repost somehow. I like it.

Harley - wonderful abstract image, nice bit of seeing on your part. The interaction of patterns, textures, and colors is superb. Whats interesting to me about this image is that there are essentially two images here, the left side and the right side. Each has it's own tonality, textures and colors. Sometimes images with a duality like this have the two sides compete with each other for attention, but in this case, the two sides mesh together nicely, and you end up with a balanced result. To my taste, I would like to see it a bit brighter even than in the repost, but maybe it's just my monitor .

Harley,

Had you posted the cropped image first, I wouldn't have any qualms or suggestions with that either. The greens actually frame the scene nicely on the left and the splattering of blue still prevail.  Having said that, I think I lean towards the original for the same reason in that in the original it's the black/dark area that frames the scene and the green and reddish reflections seem to be channeled thru the image giving it a nice flow.

Can't go wrong with either.

Lon

This is a great reflection abstract, Harley, with a good spectrum of colors and lots of interesting detail in the ripples.  I think the darkness on both sides provides a balance for which I favor the original post.  I too think that some overall brightening might look good.