Thanks for the comments everyone. It is interesting to hear what your eye does looking at this photo. The flowers are distracting, and infact I cropped out as much of them as I could. I thought it might make an interesting foreground element, but I was wrong. I have never like the look of some of the overdone HDR images I have seen, and have shied away from them. But as I think about it, there are ones that are donesubtly that workwell. I think I remember one that Bryan did from Maine of a lighthouse that I liked very much. I should have bracketed this and tried it with HDR. The timing of the shot is difficult, the color is true to life if you get it early, too early and the shadows from the eastern hills cast shadows higher on the mountains. I have waited until the tips of the Island are lit up, but by that time most of the color from the mountains are gone, and it is a much different scene.


Thanks for the help,


Tom