Ein sehr sches Bild Pat! Vielleicht hte man den Hai und Rochen ein bisschen an die Wasserfarbe anpassen sollen, um den Eindruck zu verstken, dass sie weiter entfernt sind.

This is a beautiful underwater scene Pat! I love the depth and the fish are really pretty!The water looks perfect with the shadows and the lighting is great! V :)

@ me109: believe it or not, I did drastically change the color of the shark to make him seem further back in the water. Perhaps I didn't change it enough.

I like this the colors are just wonderful the POV is very nice and all the PW is very well done.

Excellent! Great idea! I like how you simulated the water with a thick blue atmosphere. :D

Excellent pic !

You find an excellent atmosphere for underwater view!

Sehr sche Unterwasseratmo und prima pw. :-)

Super atmo setting - well done! Love your fishies! Pat - try a 'screen' (rather than 'normal') blend mode for objects in the distance in water

I believe heartland is made by joshus_hund. I agree about the shark, and I would do more than just change the color to simulate distance. . .try reducing the opacity of the layer a tiny bit, or adding a little blur. . .or something. Nice work on the whole here though, great atm

very beautiful image. you could add some caustics on the ground and some stronger lightrays to make it perfect !!

Das Problem mit der Farbanpassung ist vergleichsweise einfach zu regeln, indem man den Hai auf eine gesonderte Ebene projeziert und diese dann transparenter macht. Dabei ist darauf zu achten, das der Hai nicht vor ein Stk Fels oder nlichem zu liegen kommt, sonst scheint das natlich durch den Fisch durch und das sieht wiederum besch...en aus! Sche Idee, Pat!

Sehr sche Idee. Evtl. knte man noch ein paar Luftblchen einfen.

Folks, thanks for all the suggestions. I used PSP 5 for the postwork, which doesn't have all those blend modes. I have tried to figure out the blend modes in PSP 8 with no success. I shall work on it more.

sche Unterwasseratmosphe, gute Idee!

Realistic and very nice underwater mood and atmo ! Excellent work + pw.

Nice work with good PW. I agree with martinjbirk, I miss some lightrays, but also without this BEAUTIFUL

So fantastic image!! So excellent work!! Great idea!

Very good picture Pat .Congratulations.

"Heartland" is by me! :-) Xlt job, Pat! Sches Tauchbild!

Nice job Pat! Maybe a few bubbles? Keep up the good work... :)

Very cool Pat...I love it!!

The result is excellent.

Again an "excellent" pic with so much nice comments ? Sorry, that doesn't look like an underwater scene, too much bright, terrain doesn't fits to underwater mood, and postwork needs a lot of work !

Beautiful work Pat. I'll bet you are going to make more of these aquascapes. I like those 'Blue Discus' in the foreground. I nearly bought a pair many years ago. You have done an excellent composition here Pat.

Really nice effect Pat all you need now are some bubbles! Excellent job!

I love this.

I have a pair of the blue turquoise discus in my 4 foot tank at home. Ecologiolally those fish in your image don't come from the same waters. A fun image none the less.

@ Saurav: I know. But I was having fun, and it's just an imaginary image anyway. :) I have also keept discus. @ various: fish in the sea don't ordinarily produce bubbles. I would have liked to get rays in the picture, but it didn't work out that way. It was too deep. :) @ joshus_hund: thanks for the terrain!

Murky with decayed organic matter the sea teams with fish slow and stopped.