Bursting with texture, contrast, and color. Well done Brent.

Wow, very dramatic! Great perspective and color!

Keeping it sharp all the way up to the plants in front (trying to decide if you tilted your camera to get some extra DOF lift to your focal plane) and making sure you controlled the wet surface below detail loss was the photographer part. Knowing that this was going to happen this dramatically and that your low angle was going to enhance the long columnar basalt pointing to the sky was your artistry. I really like this one.

The strong uplifting soaring feeling with a convention center in the background suggests that you could sell this to the marketing people to advertise their the center.

The colors, clarity, and DOF here are just wonderful, Brent. It's a pretty amazing shot.

Gee guys, thanks so much for your very kind comments :-)

So what wins here, the gorgeously striated piece of rock in the foreground, the beautiful green glass architecture looming behind it, or that lovely colored hunk of dramatic sky at the top? I'd say all three. Nice job!

The composition looks really good how you fit the building in to blend with the rock in the frame. Excellent mate.

You always manage to find something different Brent & this is no exception. Great blocks of colour/texture work so well. Just realised its RGB from the bottom up.

Wonderful, looks like an in penetrable fortress...such earthy colours and textures, really great.

One word, Brilliant. the talent must come form working with teeth :-), great stuff.

Amazing shot!. Colours and textures really pops up!. The sky is terrific also...what a shot mate!.

Thanks Carole, you slipped in your comment when I was responding to the boys :-) The building behind is part of the Washington State Convention Center. There is a huge glass enclosed sky bridge in another part of the building I was hoping to shoot during a sun burst. Surprisingly, just a few minutes after I captured this I met with their public relations manager and the guy actually escorted me up there and unlocked it for me to shoot (I am a tax payer after all). But of course the brief bit of sun was gone by the time we got up there :-( Anyway, I was very happy to get this capture instead.

Ah, must be the quality of light then.

Thanks much guys :-) Didn't really need to do a whole lot here Aam to get the color. Converted with LR "camera standard" profile and added no saturation. The nice color on the basalt rock comes from it being wet. I shot this during the whole five minutes of direct sunlight we had today between the rain showers. The sky was such a vivid blue I dedided to do a desat and add some luminance to the blue because I figured people would think it was fake. PS work was mostly levels and curves for clarity with a little bit of sharpening.

Wow indeed Brent! I like everything about this - the color, perspective, contrasts of man-made vs nature, and the great textures. Is that a home? It looks more like an office building as it seems huge, and I like the green glass. Good PP too. Well done! :-)

What JP said. Love the colors here, too.

So Brent, when are you going to teach me how to get those kind of colors. What are your 'tricks".