Beautiful - I'll come fishing

Very creative... nice composition

Love it - green is one of my favourite colours

You need to remove the watermark or your image will get removed

lol i love it

LOL

Ah...photography and the imagination! Refreshingly creative! Awesome set up and excellently captured!

very nice, love the beer and the picture

Beautiful

beautiful colors, idea of peace,bravo

Wow this is beautiful, both the place and the photo.

stunning colours that place looks like paradise

Good green job...

Love the title. Nice shot, but wished it showed a bit more of the pencils

good composition

Pretty cool cake

lovely

a pretty shot, but you can't really see the people very well

Don't know what you mean by;
guess we are all of then?

From the theme:
Remember we want the original to be taken a long time ago, the older the better, but at least 50 years ago, that means Early 1960's or before.

gret shot, but the before is perhaps not quite old enough.

nice photograph

I agree. It does kind of look like a painting

lovely, like a painting

I wasn't talking about adjusting your values, I was suggesting cropping the too dark bottom off a bit, so that it is less 'bottom heavy,' composition wise.

And as for "the real deal," that is dependent upon the camera you are using. Some cameras record value levels differently than others. Having seen enough sunsets, I'd be willing to bet that the shoreline was not nearly pitch black with that much light still in the sky...

It's so dark, the lower third is basically black. I'd suggest cropping a large part of that away, to bring the focus up. It's weighing down your composition.

With the sunglasses and the shadows, it's hard to see the emotion.

Why is that? With the good settings you can take a shot and night and make it looks like a day shot .

Man... that must have been a GIGANTIC candle

So...the exposure was 15 sec & your model didn't move at all ( i can't see any motion blur )???
Congrats to her...No one can't stay still for that long.This is an impossible shot!
Good luck

Can you please share your camera settings.
Because of the poor light (candle lights) source you must have use a high ISO value or a small aperture number (F:1.8 or lower).
I don't see any digital noise in high resolution,that would be a result from a high ISO & the DOF (depth of field) is not shallow at all ( if small aperture number was used).

Great mood, excellent use of the theme.

Wonderful color and composition - timing is everything, and you caught the perfect moment with this shot. Excellent job.

seems to convey a closeness and intimacy too, as well as the softness of the lighting...

... and the situation and tone reposeful and sensual...

inspirational

the soft candlelight is gorgeous!

no Rum better have been harmed/wasted in the making of this shot~! LOL Nice job author.

Reminds me last night lol

I think just that rum might do the job.