2019 - Image of the Week #26

[Kayaker72]

Welcome to TDP forum's "Image of the Week" competition. Each week photographers may submit their images for the title of "Image of the Week." Weekly winners will then compete on a monthly, quarterly, and, finally, in our annual poll for the title of "TDP Image of the Year."

• The Week 26 entry period will be from June 24th through/including Sunday, June 30th.
  
• Please supply a title for your image.

• This is an open competition for landscape, portrait, architectural, macro, or any other appropriate photographic style.
• Images should have been either recently taken or processed.
• Enter as many times as you would like.
  

This week will be judged by cls.

[Minerve101]

Blue damsel by dfwatsoneuro, on Flickr

[DavidEccleston]

Baby Blue Jay by Dave E, on Flickr

[Joel Eade]

Stairway to Heaven?

[clemmb]

Redondo Beach Pier
_DS_0009 by Mark Clem, on Flickr

_DS_0003 by Mark Clem, on Flickr

[cls]

After some debating back and forth with myself I’ve come to the decision that Joels’s stairway to heaven is this week’s winner. I really like the composition with the clean scene and the stairway leading the eye to the beautiful clouds. (From my personal preferences I believe the image would benefit from less saturated colors. Maybe a high contrast B/W conversion would suit this one well?)

[Joel Eade]

Thanks for pick, I appreciate it.

PS I did boost the saturation of the sky (maybe too much) in an attempt to make it look "heavenly". I had not considered a B&W for this one but I think its a good suggestion.

[DavidEccleston]

Congrats Joel, and thanks for holding off on a bird shot for the week.

[Minerve101]

Congratulations, Joel! I thought this was a good use of editing for artistic effect rather than realism.