Fantastic description. Details are always nice. The purplish hue adds an aura to this, I'm not sure how to descibe it. It's quite striking though. You seem to have stepped up a notch as of late.

It looks so peaceful and ethereal. It's hard to imagine cars on it! Great photo! ^__^

very nice picture!

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MiLiE

running into a semi with logs around this turn would not be good especially if you had bad insurance.
i love the mist and the colours generally.The long winding road reminds me of those metaphors of life being a long winding road it looks mysterious how the road seems to disappear into the mist like you don't know what's coming next.
hopefully not the semi.

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enter my wonderland.

Beautiful shot. It looks as if the tree is hanging out over the winding road. Great capture.

Nice work, the concept of destruction is well conveyed, and so as a result it is a powerfull image.

The technical execution seems to let this down a bit though, The colours are unnatural in my books, and there are two focal points, usually the eye would be led into the distance by thr road, but in this case the very foreground and the distance compete.

On top of all this, your horizen is crooked, so your trees bend unnatually, and the road is tilting.

The horizon actually isn't crooked. Next to the road there is an incredibly deep gully with very steep slopes, which is what causes the trees to tilt that way. In addition to that, the road is a mountainous way of gravel and one is hard-pressed to find a single place that would 'line up' in particular with anything.

I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say the vocal points are conflictory - I don't see it myself but it's all in the eye of the beholder. Same goes for the colouration, the filters were intended to give it a deadly, ominous look, but were playing up what was there to begin with. The sunset combined with mist and smoke from the city below are what gives it that rather purple glow. Thanks for the uh CC however

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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yes, I am aware mountain roads are not striaght

My point was the image seems to have an unnatural tilt (wheather or not a deep gully exists on the left doesn't really matter to me).

What I also meant about conflicting focal points was the foreground road-barrier is well illuminated, so when you eye attempts to travel off down the road, into the darker area's, it get's pulled back.

I agree, the smokey/smog is good, it adds to the concept, and is visually stimulating, but i think having the haze another colour other then pink would be more productive.

Those are just my thoughts though

This is the first photo deviation I've looked at for quite a while, and it's a great one to boot.