Stillness

Really stunning image, wonderfully capturing a feeling of serenity, solitude, and overall, simple peace.

The color are really beautiful, mainly because they are so well balanced, everything on the right two thirds of the image is perfectly balanced (although nice subtle differences in the sky tone, and the elements on the left balance nicely too (as far as the hues go). That bright green patch of land is meth with the sky as part of the motion drawing the user full circle around the image. Even the shape of the blue of the sky matches the shape of the reflected sky, on one side it is cut off by land, on the other by a cloud formation. The one unbalanced element is the road with the sky above, the values are just too dissimilar, and the eye is led to the clouds rather than the road. Both serve as leading elements, to the central buildings of focus, although the initial gesture of those clouds is more upwards and less to the left. That far left tree is a very dark spot, and horizontally isn't balanced with any equal portion of negative space, though with the forest on the right blurring into an even tone, it almost makes the balance.

The composition overall is really great with a parabolic feel to all of the curves, centering on the two buildings (though my eye is torn between the one closest the the center/focal-point, and the brighter one).

If I could change something about this image, it would actually be one of the process elements to taking the shot, not any of the after effects. I guess I'm not sure whether the wide lens was selected for the right reasons. There is obvious distortion happening at the edges of the image, and this wide angle effect generally lends itself to dynamic compositions and centers of interest, but did you really want something "dynamic"? Compositionally yes, dynamic is good, opposed to static, but to some extent your image depends on this, without those leading curves we would lose a lot. The title of your image is "stillness", but looking at the edges of the image (the outermost fifth or so on both sides) this is not the feeling that reads. The clouds,, road, trees, and water all have some motion to them, some gesture, it is only the center that is still. How could you have brought interest to the focal point without using a lens that disrupts the feeling of stillness?

Just some thoughts, all in all a beautiful image <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)"/>