sunny place

Nice subject and composition, but for my taste the colours are massively over-saturated.

Nice shot

As a serial undersaturater I have to agree with the above comment though.

Hey guys...I like the pop of colour!

The composer is fantastic!

Nice shot, agree about the saturation though (even though I am often guilty of same!), especially the greens.

It's a matter of choice and taste, isn't it? Besides the compo, it is what makes it beautiful IMHO!

Nice place and good compo.

Hmm. Possibly it's a matter of taste and bad taste.

To quote John Keats: '"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'.

These colours are unnatural and false, and to people who don't drink red wine with fish they detract from what would otherwise be a good picture.

G

Thank you G for the lesson and the ranking of my taste! I'm not as churlish as to drink red wine with fish, nor unaware of the literature of the English tongue. There are other sayings as well:

"Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues."
Shakespeare

"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote." Lyly

"Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion."
B. Franklin
"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." Hume

All come to this: It is "in the eye of the beholder."

It is still just an opinion George!!

Indeed. People have a right to express their opinions, and equally I have a right to express my opinion of their opinions.

When photography loses touch with reality, then there is little to distinguish it from painting or airbrushing or spray-canning. And we lose something.

But I did enjoy Nezih's response to my post.

G