Dramatic! A gothic castle for crustaceans. Wonderfully done.

A wonderful capture. Very nice.

Superb capture Tara. God Bless.

Love the shadows and colors!!

Through your and Bill's photos, I have come to like these pilings too!

Looks like a monument built by the same Neolithic people who built Fountainhendge. Nice moody atmosphere.

Stunning shot! You are so lucky to have this at your door step!

That's beautiful.

Well captured....

Absolutely love the light. And the softness here enhances the scene for me. Nicely done:*

Wow, what a lovely shot.

Nice capture and lighting Tara. They look like they are trying to hold back the water.

Breathtaking low-light capture, Tara! The details are amazing on zoom. Well done, you!

WOW! so beautiful and I love these piles too :)

beautiful, i love the sombre tones, it makes such a dramatic picture

Awesome light, mood, and atmosphere!

Great shot Tara. Looking at your photos from thew Sound it almost makes me want to go up there again!

very cool capture Tara

very lovely

It looks like you've come to know them well, Tara! Such a gorgeous and tranquil photo - love this!

beautiful dramatic composition :)

Instant fav. Loads of interest here. Well composed!

I can see why they are your favourite. Gorgeous.

Loe the contrast of dramatic foreground and caln setting

the original looks great, too!

It looks like an old fortress. great atmospere.

Superb light & lovely gradations of color...

It's so fitting that I see this shot now! There are pilings in Chicago, in the neighborhood Corey and I lived in, once upon a time, in a neighborhood far, far away...we'd go there and talk about random things, or craft story ideas that were never actually written down...at least not yet. The starship, Impala was born near such pilings, but it's story has yet to be written, but I have a bit of background information on a particular character with a braid. Corey has been made quite familiar with the "boys with braids" and I wouldn't be surprised if he remembers the snips and snatches of their language. Yeah, I spent a lot of time near the "Rogers Park Mystery Pilings" developing a language spoken by cute, suspiciously-human looking aliens with a habit of wearing braids--well, a single braid, similar to a Jewish earlock, only less symmetrical, since there's only one...oh, and they wear ponytails also. The hairstyle is called "Shadva" but there's a longer story behind that, and don't even get me started on the...um...well...the whole complicated relationships between "shadva" and "uushuut". Suffice it to say that hairstylists on a particular planet have quite a lot to say about braids and ponytails and the proper grades of lacquer used to keep them all nice and shiny. Anyway, it's fitting that I see this image, even though I went off on a tangent involving alien hair, and the names of two particular styles. Pilings do that to me and I absolutely love these! This image has actually triggered thoughts of that so-far-unwritten alien race, and things are coming back to me. I suspect this might have sparked something, and why wouldn't it have done so? It's gorgeous. Wonderfully moody. I love the vibe this imparts and I could easily see myself standing where you stood, spinning all sorts of stories in that thinking part of my brain. This is super!

Great pic Hugs Susan~

Great capture! It is really beautiful there on a sunny day...