This is cool, though I would have preferred it without the bird...

I agree. The bird takes your eyes away from the flame.

Unfortunately he was having a bath and didn't want to move! Although I should have taken it from a different angle so he wasn't in it, I just thought it added some further interest. Next time

Authour - the horizon looks a little crooked to me .... maybe it's just that damn bird!

Powerful

agrees, great power shown here, nice entry

Thank you guys! It was very stormy

Wind an earth - good one

while there is a windmill, there's no evidence of wind - a little motion blur would help some

There's a similar entry but obviously there must be some wind if they went out of their way to put a wind generator up.

Kyricom, a wind mill is something they used, mainly centuries ago, to grind wheat and corn.

Good idea, nice work.

This would have been a great shot for HDR, to get all the foreground detail, like the framing and nice use of the CPL...GL

i was not allowed to enter the hdr contest due to being new to this site! but ill give it a go, and up load it to my profile

It's alright, sometimes HDR's are entered into other contests, it's a technique like exposure blending that is allowed. Just try not to overdo the saturation levels for a landscape and you should get a great result.

The saturation looks a little overcooked in the sky

Sky looks ok, probably appears OS because of the dark shadowed area.