This is an amazingly beautiful composition. I love cemeteries, and the way you've captured the essence of "spookiness" is exceptional. The tones, lighting and detail work perfectly.

very nice! you've created a fantastic atmophere here. one detail though the grave in the foreground looks a little too light compared to the rest.Anyhow, it doesn't matter that much, great work!

Almost everything is perfect in this shot. Birds make a great frame, one of them sitting there... Just the tree touches the middle headstone. But accept that - amazing visual efect. Great.

Dramatic mood of the judgement day //Roger

How many photos did you use? One for the crows? One for the tree? One for grave stone?

Interested.

Very good.

Thanks everybody. Alex is very right. I did change it a bit: the tree is now lighter and the tombstone is a bit darker. It looks better indeed. It's guys like you who make this website so wonderful! Thank you !!!

Simply EXCELLENT!

Like this one too, original work.

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Spooky,striking,original,gothic...and, not least, well done!

Spooktacular! Couldn't resist! :-) Great job!!

Very nice!

Amazing the way the light reflecting off the foreground stone illuminates the bird perched upon it. Really nicely seen & captured :)

fantastic! Thanks a lot teacher

this is beautful, a dream for some, nightmare for others...how many photos is this???

Strong B/W image trough its dark atmosphere and strong light contrast

Great shot Peter. I love the composition. The lighting is spot-on, with a little edge light on the tombstone and the tree silhouetted. Great background with the clouds but the birds really make it a 7/7! Tim

very creepy ;)

Very illustrative shot! The feeling of this shot is fantastic. The slight angle makes it even more creepy.

Beautiful, Peter!

i like the composition, speccilay the position of tree and smaller kross. i guess you purposly didn't wont of image to seam like real, that's why is the light on the biger kross as it is. am i write?

Hi Spomenka,

I try to make my compositions as real as possible. All components in the image are real. Even the bent tree does exist and the skew tombstone is also skew in real life . I just assemble them using my imagination. Getting the light right is the most difficult part. I did adjust the light on the big tombstone as Alex Bieth (check out his gallery!!) suggested (see above). This website is so much fun. Thanks everybody!

Great image with a fantastic atmosphere. Makes me think about the movie "The birds" from Hithcock.

I like this one a lot :)

hi terrific!!!!!!!!! really nice frightened capture,thank u for sharing, congrats, good luck

this photo is so "perfect" to be real it reminds of a movie picture. The seemingly unreal components are the perfectly flying birds around a grave and the tilted cross of the tombstone. No organized cemetery leaves their crosses this way. Overall result perfect!

wonderful mood. I might rethink the title. it is too explicit. cheers Jana

I don't typically comment on assembled images like this one, but I find the artifacts surrounding nearly every object (tree, gravestones, birds) to be extremely distracting and think they greatly detract from the overall image. I would normally assume that they're simply .jpg compression artifacts, but they're as evident on the 'larger' view as on the resized image, so I'm wondering if they're not also due to some photoshop procedures where the objects were composited with the sky.

good use of lighting, Peter.. nice trasformation ...

I should add, notwithstanding my previous comment, that I do like the overall concept of the image!

light, ominous clouds, birds on the grave and wheeling overhead, bent twisted tree, gotta love it!

amazing tone!