Congrats on 1st place

Really nice values and colors.

Thank you for the informative history of this emblem! It's a nice photo, but understanding it a bit more enhances it's visual beauty.

Beautiful reflections, and the clouds truly set this photo. Very nice! I agree, a "4 Seasons" from this spot would be most interesting.

Well done. This is so pretty...why not consider taking duplicate shots from this same location for each season (summer winter and spring). Beautiful entry.

Love the detail of the shot - the colour tone is lovely and the cloud looks great

beautiful

You have to add the line of the song to your description area

That is sad. Well taken.

Beautiful, could almost make me wish for snow.

Great shot, love the ship in the far distance.

Great job author!!! I knew if anyone could make some thing so ugly so beautiful it would be you!

great find and photo

Those cattle must have some LOOOoong hair!

Really good in High Res

Lovely colours

Good visual composition.

Nice shot and great mood. Only one thing, you forgot the link to the wikipedia page in your description.

Nice looking pooch

Naughty dog goood

nice shot

great

haha, definitely sloth! Very nice

Something about this one really catches my eye. I keep coming back to it. Beautiful shot author!

Excellent! Great location/composition.

thanks

A beautiful photograph, but I would loose some of the foreground.

I think the idea of it being ugly is that it's this ultra modern building that is sitting right at the end of the Royal Mile and right next to Holyrood Palace (sp?) so it's clashing with the old style architecture that surrounds the new building. At least that's what I get from it being entered into this category. I personally love the building and this picture captures it perfectly

Ummm. So what's the ugly and what's the lovely visually, here?

I agree, Vibeke. It reminds me of an egg.

Great, lovely leading lines.

Nice colors..
they look like fingers..

Great, love the rock under the tree, can't wait for it to hatch.

Beautiful... perfect !

rather name it, abandoned phone booth in a boat wreck yard, lol, agree with kyricom it 'd be out of place anyway, good shot, good luck

guess you just never know when you need to phone someone.

sounds like you have convinced mods that those are ducks, haha, i'm glad it stays cuz it's a lovely shot, high score, good luck

Great entry, love the color, good luck!

It's the ruins of the old pier, so I think it should still count. We all know it touched land once upon a time...I like it.

At first look I thought you had some bad scratches on your lens. I assume the are infact, cobwebs

Cool shot, but if it doesn't touch land, I'm not sure it qualifies as a "pier."

Such pretty lichen too

You do go to some strange places.

How do we know it's not actually a boat in a telephone yard? (either way, it'd be out of place)

Yes indeed and a wonderful shot to get these coming so close does not happen where I live.
Good luck Author

good to see this one back.

Very nice!

Awesome find, fantastic clarity, color, and composition.

Beautiful, I just knew it was one of yours.

I like the angle you used to capture this photo. Good job!