Colorful night

Very nice in deed. I only have some minor suggestions. I do not know whether you intentionally do that, but there seems to be a strong vignetting around the image. Especially the upper left and right corners seem quite dark to my eye.

Other than that brightening the whole image may also works to make it more vivid. Just some thoughts. Well done.

Serkan

Beautiful night shot! Maybe you could brighten up just a bit. You did not give any technical details. It looks like the middle ground is softer than the foreground, especially the bush on the left. Although it is difficult to see in this small image. The sky color looks fine for me.

wow !!

this is awesome, you just got a perfect light

very nice

I think your processing is spot on with this one. If it was any brighter, it wouldn't feel like a night image. I find the light you've captured on the foreground cactus to be very intriguing -- it gives the image a lot of dimension when combined with the light on the rocks in the background. In this case, I think the city lights actually give this shot an added sense of dimension that might be lacking if you had very dominant stars. For a lot of photographers, "Aggressive Milky Way" shots are in vogue, but I find that they are often too much, and it spoils the feeling of being there and seeing it in person. I think what you've accomplished here is a night photo that feels genuine to the scene, and doesn't feel like some tatted up dude with a fauxhawk and an energy drink singing(shouting) "silent night" to me. Well Done.

Chikku, this is awesome. The processing looks great to me. I could see the foreground being a little darker to give it more of the natural twilight look, but it really shines as presented. The colors look fantastic and very natural. Nice work

Yup. I knew this would turn out really good. I think the processing is almost spot on. I think you could add a bit more of the magenta for a more unique look. The clouds were perfectly moving over the mountain and helps pull you back into the peaks. Let's try to get back out there either this weekend or sometime next week.

I've shot near here at night and noticed some really intense light pollution before, so magnificent job processing for that, and everything else too for that matter. The composition is unique and lovely throughout, although I might have wished a tad more separation between peak/cactus on the right side was possible. Still, this is quite enjoyable.

Nice POV Chikku- were you on your belly? Watch out for those pesky cholla! Processing looks fine- I might open up the shadows on the cholla a bit. Framing seems a little too much overlap with the cholla over the mountain and you probably gave the extra room on the left to see more of the stars but I'd probably crop in there a bit. Hope to get out with you again this spring.

Very surreal I like the color contrast between the sky and the yellow flowers. Nice job!

Chikku, glad to see that you were able to get out and shoot. I too saw what Marc said about desiring more mountain, but don't know if the flowers to the left would allow a shift of position. The sky below and right of the cholla looks too gradiated and burnt on the outer right. The relative brightness of the whole scene looks good to me.

Beautiful, Chikku.

Out of this world.
outstanding.

Awesome night shot! Beautiful light and it still has the night feeling to it. My opinion is that the processing is perfect. If this is brighter so the night feeling gets lost. Great work

This image would look amazing on Print! I love the colors here. Maybe it's just me but the light areas above the rock in the background look like halos, but I could be totally wrong.
The composition is fantastic!

Lovely work!

Thank you everyone!

Here is a edit with some minor changes as requested.

Nice one Chikku! I really like the comp, the Cholla tree adds a lot of strength to the overall balance of the scene.

Shane