Nice drama, yes. Good luck!

The lighting in this is just gorgeous

Fantastic capture. GL!

this is a beautiful picture!

Thanks everyone! I actually took this in 60mph winds hah. You can see the tree in the mid left area blowing around. I sky was just so amazing before the storm started though. Then I had to run to the car full speed because they say the 7D is waterproof but I KNOW my lenses are not. hahah thank you for all of your nice compliments!

Congrats for your first place!

And thank you again Lelaina!

I absolutely love this picture....Great work!!

Stunning detail on the wheat. GL!

Great shot, I was just wondering but I thought I noticed some post-shot digital sharpening in the HR?

amazing details, good luck

thanks all for the kind comments. Jtpobrien, I shoot in raw format and generally I don't have to do extra sharpening when I take it in to lightroom or camera raw. This one I didn't have to do any sharpening luckily, just adjusted the black levels to deepen tones and added clarity. Thankyou for your inquiry though, hope that was what you wanted to know.

jtpobrian: look at the rules and guidelines
"What tools/alterations MAY I use?
As a general rule, you are allowed to all adjustments which act on the whole picture and on exactly one picture (a.k.a. non selective editing).
This includes:
level,
curves,
hue,
saturation,
color adjustments/shifting,
brightness,
contrast,
Gaussian blur,
noise reduction,
sharpness,
Crop and rotate,
Lens correction,
Camera raw editing,
Healing brush to remove dust and scratches from a scan or speckles from dust on your camera's sensor,
Duplicated layers,
Layer blending modes"

Very nice shot! You might consider cropping just a little off the left so the guy isn't quite so centered

Very Cool! GL!

Didnt bruce springsteen do something like this?

Congrats for your second place, Dollmommy!

Lost quite a bit of vibrancy here after the upload, does anyone know why?

Mine almost always tend to do that on here, I have just gotten used to pushing my contrast past the point where I normally woud so that it turns out how I want it on here.

Yea I guess, my green was alot greener and the sky was a warm color....

We seen this one not long ago If you have uploaded in Adobe RGB instead of sRGB you will lose some of the vibrancy.... especially in the greens. Adobe RGB has a larger gamut of colour which can be lost once uploaded - most web applications can't replicate the colour range in Adobe RGB

I tried uploading one myself in the sRGB color space (I don't print my photos too often so I just use this as the default) and I still had a slight shift in vibrancy (not as bad, though). Thanks for the tip!
Oh, and great capture, author. I'm loving this contest so far!

Thank you, and I did make sure it was sRGB this time and still lost a bit. Oh well though, its ok.

And also congrats for your third place!

Thank you! Lelaina

beautiful colors!

Very awesome work and I wouldn't expect anything less than awesome from you. GL!

Just superb bro... Fantastic color. Very impressive... etc etc etc...