Wonderful shot! Great clouds and B&W!

Very nice photo

Very nice! I love the choice of using B&W!

gorgeous b/w photo the clouds really enhance the photo...great job

Thank you !

Nice capture!

Nicely poised. I thought the ball of it's head and left wind as we are looking at it seemed a bit hot (over-exposed), but that's difficult to control in bright sunlight while still maintaining the contrast of the shaded areas.
Nice work.

wonderful

Thank you

great scene and beautiful fire works

nice compo

I really like the theme here, good comp, nice tones...well done author

really love the composition!

Thank you!

Great shot, what is spleen?

It's a great shot, but l looks to be like selective colouring, which isn't allowed, unfortunately.

It certainly isn't selective color, I see green, magenta, and brown, in addition to the pink. Nice entry author

No selective colouring at all. Look at the grass around. Not so easy to explain myself in english, but.. I just lowered the saturation, and brought the vibrance up.

@jeaniblog
In French, "splénétique" refers to a state of pensive sadness or melancholy. It has been popularized by the poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) but was already used before in particular to the Romantic literature (18th century). The word for the organ is "la rate." -Wiki

Thanks I think it's a great shot, just had to ask, I should probably had said selective desaturation.

Definitely not selective coloring. It's just matching nature with man made and the statue is already gray so it looks like it's been made grayscale. Well done author! GL!

Congrats for your first place!