Field Of Dreams w/Repost

Wow, larger version is a must! Excellent shot Zack. Beautiful light & color, and the flowers look sensational. Great sky too! Blend also looks very natural. Perhaps a little dark in the shadows around the bottom of the image, but it does look very natural like that. Nice one.

This image has a real impact especially seen large. I like your upfront comp. Color in the foreground and sky very nice. Good work, Zack. Chet

Zack,
Those back lit flowers are excellent,
the depth, diagonal and sky really work nicely together.
Great image.

The large version is just great Zack. Wonderful depth and a beautiful sky and I like your composition. Well done.

Great use of technology. Well exposed and composed, the dark top and bottom combined with the strong colors in between really creates a powerful mood. Seems the skies could open up and pour, or clear entirely at any moment.

Nice use of the light and drama!

Some nice color and clouds to compliment the flowers. While the deep shadows do bring out the foreground flowers, I do agree a little recovery there would be nice. Beautiful scene, and the blends look good.

Really nice shot and well executed! I think it could also work with a little bit of a crop on the left & right to make the front flowers fill more of the frame, but that's an observation not a critique, since it also works just fine as is.

This is stunning! Love the drama, energy and emotional impact. Perfect as is

I love the sky and flowers--great scene! Im gonna be a bit tough on you with the blend cause I know it's a tough one--but i disagree on it looking natural here--it has some issues that are very common with these sort of blends, namely the transition. It is too bright at the transition and too dark at the bottom, which is causing that classic hdr issue for the silhouetted area. I would bring the sky darks up considerably (brighten sky overall--just preserve the highlights) and darken the horizon while brightening the darks at bottom. I know you didn't wan't to hear that--but i think the shot is worth some sweat and tears.

This is great, looks to be well worth all of your work.

Wonderful color and light Zack. I would bring up the dark shadows a bit though.

Looks like the sunflowers are pretty good up there. Real nice bringing them close in and filling the bottom of the frame. The sky looks wicked, very dramatic. Nice work Zack! Last Saturday I saw black bear near the Trout Lake Trail. I don't know if he is still around though. Maybe I can get up there this weekend.

amazing shot !, I can imagine how difficult to blend such picture.

I couldn't help to notice that there is some noise in the shadows of the sky

great job

wonderful Zack

Beautiful shot Zack. The bottom shadows seem a bit too dark on my monitor, but the contrast looks great.

Thanks everyone! I do have the detail at the bottom but I purposely left the shadows darker due to it being pretty noisy down there, I was shooting at ISO 1250 to combat the wind.

Stan: The sky was really dark, I did minimal burning of the shadows up there. I may play around with it some more and see what I can come up with. Thanks for the critique.

Stan, here's a repost incorporating your ideas (except for brightening the dark areas of the sky, as this made it seem to HDRish, and the sky was very dark to begin with). I've added a bit more detail in the shadows at the bottom as well. Let me know what you think guys.