Printing's what counts

beautiful image, very striking.
Maybe the foreground lakes are a little black

definite improvement but still looks unnatural, Over-saturated and still that odd haze between the cliffs like you increased the contrast on the distant cliffs but faded it out at the bottom.

My thoughts exactly. Plus an unatural shift between foreground cliffs and distant.
Recently your images have looked fine but this one looks like it was taken 20 years ago, Like an old postcard.
We have had a discussion before about this and I thought maybe it was my monitor. I have a Mac now and I'm fairly certain the monitor is pretty flawless (although I haven't calibrated it yet )

Incidentally, I have noticed that this browser - Firefox 3 on Mac, does some strange things with some colours (GIFFs maybe (different colour palette?)). But that's not the cause here, as your image is the same on the PC

7th Sounds good.
Anybody else?

It's not just a great word - that's a great bike too
Nice shots! that's no easy thing to do.

Brilliant Simon! Well done.
Looks like a deserving winner.

Max11 and I nearly got it together to meet up one evening on the Barbican, but the timings didn't fit, then I had flu. Happy to try again. Makes sense to just sit and have a beer and see what it is we all expect from this.

PentaxBabe, I think it is because it wasn't taken with a fisheye that it confuses the senses a little.
The brain is good at figuring out how much should be in a given area and what sort of distortion to expect. When you have things with very recognisable perspective - like clouds, The brain expects things a certain way. The fisheye 'tells' the brain how it did it and so the brain can accept it more readily.
For me the fisheye is just that much more illustrative and fun.

But these shots are lovely all the same. I think it would be interesting to try stretching number 3 a little widthways to see if it's even better. Something for nothing? Maybe.

That's interesting - I can't see any difference at all between the last 2.
Not keen on any of them really, except 1! Not sure it is the right picture for BW.