~Early Morning~ Photo

Photographer’s Note

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.”
Og Mandino

6 am.

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lule-jan (274) 2007-08-20 4:30

Hi,

Great shot here, i like the mysterious fog and the dark colors.
Suberb job.

Rgards/Lule

amazingfaith (5) 2007-08-20 7:09

Great landscape, what time did you captured that? Did you used filter?

Keep it up!!

xkolba (3188) 2007-08-20 7:54

Hi Salma,
Excellent foggy composition, with interesting climate of city wakening to life. I like division of frame with completely black lower part, foggy center and lighted up sky with interesting clouds.
Good work!
Best regards,
Maciek

smarcell (14279) 2007-08-20 7:56

I like this monochromatic picture, with the skiscrapers shaded by the fog. I would maybe crop the bottom of fthe frame, the darkest part.

Fiddlee (178) 2007-08-20 8:25

A beautiful "awakening" photo, with the blues absolutely mysterious and calming. And yet daylight is promised from the upper left of the photo... Love it. I like all the black at the bottom, I think it balances the sky.

lasscor (7637) 2007-08-20 8:57

Hi Salma,
Wonderful peaceful blue misty morning light.
Nice blue tones and silhouette of the town.
TFS,
Corinne

crhieatt (5143) 2007-08-20 9:39

Salma,
Impressive, dark, misty cityscape rising from black to blue. I like the photo - it seems rather at odds with the message of your note - perhaps you are being ironic? Either way, I like the shot.
Regards
Colin

Maddog (4407) 2007-08-20 10:31

hi

Great shot and wonderfull atmosphere!!
Excelent POV

Mad

nico51 (274) 2007-08-20 13:40

Hi Salma,
très belle photo.
Bravo!
Nicolas

soma (943) 2007-08-20 15:54

wow ...just wow masallah !!

worldcitizen (2257) 2007-08-20 16:19

Hello Salma,
The mood of this photo is wonderful. I like the different layers, and the way the buildings mysteriously poke out of the fog. The blue tones are beautiful, and the frame you chose really compliments the composition.

Bruno40 (6440) 2007-08-21 3:31

Hi Salma
Great moody photo of Manila, the blue colour hour, togther with the morning mist, created a really nice photo.
Well done
Jorge

noborders (14199) 2007-08-21 6:08

A splendid view, one has the really impression to see a megalopolis here,
Bravo,
Cath.

Surfer31 (3587) 2007-08-21 11:22

Salma... I have no words (once again).. You have a wonderfull gift to match your pictures with words, even if they are not your own words, you simply make them work out beautifully with your images. I can tell you I was knocked out only by your picture, and when I read the message you chose to go along with your mystic image I started to feel like my soul was traveling at the speed of light. I swear this is true. I felt like a shooting star going up instead of comming down. I got chicken skin, I trembled, I felt like a particle of dust traveling around the universe.
As for the picture I have no words to express how wonderfull it is. It's another one of those I could hang on my bedroom wall at stare at it for hours. No kiding, my dear Salma.
Thank you, thank you, thank you...

rafid76 (2611) 2007-08-21 23:34

this would make a great book cover, maybe a mystery novel involving a guy searching for a long lost treasure in a forgotten world!
colors, composition and most of all your theme is FABulous.

silvia_zenova (1318) 2007-08-22 14:04

Hello Salma,
incredible atmosphere you are captured! This foggy morning is full of mood for me.
From technical point of view - good composition and wonderful monochromatic tones, really exciting!
Regards, Silvia

photographer123 (5750) 2007-08-23 6:54

hi..
wow..what a shot...look like you captured it in stoneage...you take us to a fantasy ilands..well done ,,great job...subir

tomauer (306) 2007-08-25 6:29

hi Salma, AMAZING shot of Manila, I have been through this bustling city many times, and you have really captured it in a different way, this doesnt even look like the typical hectic Manila Scene you usually find on TE, This one is beautiful, everything from the mysterious fog to the Skyscrapers peeking through the top of the fog.

Thank you for sharing this with us Salma, im looking forward to many other great shots like this!

Mabuhay Ang Pilipinas! :)

regards,
tom

ayniLL (0) 2007-09-09 14:25

merhaba salma
amazing view with excellent note
the photo looks like out of the world
dramatic sky with fog, it makes me melancholic
really good work
TFS

xavis (3176) 2007-09-11 13:12

Hola,
Great ambiance you brings in this picture with the fog and the buildings. A simple composition but you works realy good with colours and lights. You ahve took the perfect moment.

Best regards,
Hasta la vista

Javier

DonGusti (795) 2007-10-08 17:04

creepy but beautiful :P

i9l2y1m8a8t3 (241) 2007-11-01 20:49

well captured! nice hazy background of the makati buildings?, amazing! great composition!

karanliklar (513) 2008-07-06 12:04

hi,

salma

super:)

jayR (16) 2008-12-18 22:43

it was like an aftermath of a nuclear bomb (because the bdlgs don't look straight at alll, they'll like rugged)

and yes, you could have cropped the lower part because the black border on top looks like "floating" in the image...