A pleasant photo, but certainly suffers from too much sky. The foreground seems as you desired it.
-- Bruce Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 2:18:16 AM, you wrote: DM> I was uploading another batch of photos and decided on a whim to make DM> this one (which I uploaded last week) a PAW. DM> http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?p=322&t=1 DM> This photo seems to be very dependent on the monitor and viewing DM> conditions. The foreground is meant to be reasonably dark. DM> I may as well show the accompanying view north towards Lyttelton DM> Harbour, the shipping port of Christchurch city which they DM> conveniently put on the other side of the hills. I remember reading DM> somewhere that the settlers considered building the city around this DM> harbour, but somebody sensible decided that building on the plain DM> would be a better idea. DM> http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?p=321 DM> Lyttelton is actually a flooded volcano which is supposedly DM> extinct... there's a good overhead view of the peninsula here which DM> shows what's left of both the Lyttelton and Akaroa volcanoes. DM> http://www.geographicguide.net/oceania/newzealand-image.htm DM> (scroll down and right) DM> Cheers, DM> - Dave