Transcendent

wooh… magnificent.

This is completely amazing

Outstanding shot Shane! Congrats!

That is absolutely amazing! This is a true work of art… the light and setting is sensational.

Abolutely trippin!!!

wow, love eerything about this….Monica

Looks like a Biblical scene. This is wild….

this such a beautiful shot – bathed in light like children should be :)

Absolutely amazing

This is a brilliant image!!

This is lovely Shane. Great work

fantastic image shane.really great work!

Well done! Beautiful!

wow, this is awesome, great work, love it

very powerful, great shot

brilliant image.

totally amazing shot – the light is awesome!

Love this, it looks surreal….

Thank you to everyone for your kind comments. My son loves the feedback too.

Thank you Rhana for showing my image in her ‘totally wicked awards’:
Totally Wicked Awards

beautiful!

What an amazing image! Love the light behind your boy, this whole image is very ethereal.

AMAZING use of HDR, Shane! this is probably the first time I’ve ever seen it done with such dramatic shadows and backlighting!

look forward to seeing much more from you! your portfolio is amazing!

Amazing shot!

great light – a very unusual portrait.

This is stunning. Perfect!

absolutely stunning. I love this one!

Awesome. Love the sky, the shadows, the reflection – just stunning.

WOw, what a great gallery of images you have here. I really like your style.

Dave

very poetic and strong image

Another great shot Shane.

This is stunning. Love the lighting and the overall effect. :-)

WOW!!!
that’s awesome!!!

I’m gob smacked, this is absolutely brilliant, nicely done.

Fabulous shot !

fantastic shot….very spiritual…..

wow this is awesome, it kinda reminds me of a book i read…

nice work :)

amazing….like the hero shot from a movie.

Brilliant work!!!

That’s one of the most stunning portraits i have ever seen. I’m awestruck!

very moody shot look supernatural

very well done….....almost surreal lighting and treatment

“Wow” is the only word I can find to describe this.

Oh, and “Brilliant” as well.

Smarti77, very smarty indeed. This is one of those photographs that just blows you away. It feels like a painting it is that much a work of art. Just amazing.

beautiful image.

absolutely brilliant ~ a beautiful image really stunning ~ I love the positioning, exposure, POV, lighting, symmetry and everthing else

This is fantastic – I love your work!

incredible image! LOVE the light!!!

Gotta love that lighting.

AV

GORGEOUS!

great work !!

AWESOME!

an angel

very nice shot, looks like one that is very hard to get

impressive!!!!

Eerie….beautiful image!

crazy photo, love the sky so much, well done

That is a stunning sky. Eerie mood too—you have a great imagination. Congrats on the home page too!

Fantastic shot….has a real sad and haunting feel to it…great colours and lighting.

fantastic light and beautiful hdr!

Many thanks for all of your kind comments – I feel honoured to have this image shown on the homepage amoungst such other talents artists.

Yay!!! Well done on the home page!!! Well deserved!!!

amazing! well done

Oh very nice! Well done!

Beautiful image…. It is so mystical…

omg amazing, photoshop kid in there?

Thanks Will – He’s not photoshoped in though, he stood there and held the pose long enough for three quick exposures which were combined wih HDR.

amazing

superb image, love setting and the lighting

I really enjoy looking at this, this is true art :) I really like the lighting and the shadows, not to mention the clouds, very well done :)

what a great shot and work here….master piece LOVE IT!

awesome…. love it

Really amazing shot! Masterpiece!

This is an absolutely brilliant image… just mesmerizing!!!

awesome composition

Beautiful! And congratulations, you’re “In the Moment”!!!! (me too)

Fantastic image, love what you’ve done to it!

your work is fantastic. there is a story and completeness or wholeness to every image. i love it.

The clouds and dark blue color really make this pop. Great photo.

What a powerful image you managed to create here. I love the boy’s expression too!

very powerrful capture…love the bakground too

congrats for the front page,such a beautiful photo Shane

Great work. Has a spiritual feel.

excellent lighting great image!

That back lighting is right out of a spiritual experience! Wow!

Amazing!

Beautiful!

This is so beautiful !!

wow…amazing.

WOW!

wow – love the lighting! Amazing image

Amazingly done! Incredible. Magnifico!

wonderful moody shot

amazing shot

oh wow, stunning

incredible shot!

Wow, this an awesome shot! Well done.

Wicked shot, well done!

Excellent work! Congrats on making homepage!

Love this is every way! so glad you were on the homepage = ) Congrats!

Superb work, and congrats on making the homepage.

Wow this looks eerie its stunning!

One to treasure, and look at for years to come.

spectacular use of light, this is what photography is all about, brilliant

This is pretty awesome – it could easily be a book cover for a few of Dean Koontz’s stories. Stunning work.

Shane what an awesome image… someone said biblical, i said horror movie… i could picture the old school title and cast list around it! :)
Fantastic shot again, green i am mate!

Wow. Amazing capture. He looks like a ghost.

great job!

Fabulous!! LOVE it!!

Gorgeous!

GREAT ART WORK ! BRAVO .

amazing colors and composition !

wow this is a fantastic photo. i love the sky in the background. all around great photo!!!!

Stunning image, the light is amazing

Hi Shane, just wanted to say that this is a stunning image – the light from the sun setting behind your son is just superb – very well captured :)

Mark

Fabulous photo!!!! Love, love, love it!!! ;-)

This is ridiculously good Shane.. Great shot and congrats on getting on the home page

simply amasing.
xxx.

brilliant capture! I love the light and shadows!

Great photos tend to look like great paintings… amazing shot.

great shot i saw it on home page when logging in
instantly reminded me of my own sons i have five
Spectacular!!!!!

Excellent work.

this is amazing like all of your work, well done and keep it up. well done

this is awesome!

This is just beautiful.

very cool

I found this because Stephen Chapple just put it up on his journal… What a beautiful image! Well done!

Wow!!! This is just absolutely brilliant work!!!!!

An outstanding image of yours.

BEAUTIFUL SHOT ..

Inspiring work, Shane! Love what you’ve done here! Thanks to Steve I found it too!

This is fantastic, the lighting is perfect and it shows a great use of HDR.

WOWOW!!! This is sooooo AWESOME!!!

Brilliant! It’s a favourite.

incredible work!
great editing

Fantastic work. It has such a magical, mystical feel to it.

wonderful capture!

Awesome shot!

wow!!! kinda of a spooky….out of the box portrait…..I like it!!!

extraordinary!! This is inspired!

Magical ! well done.

beautiful and dreamy! Fantastic capture of light!

I really like the origonality of this one!!!

Very nice contrast and use of colour in this one. Great work.

Amazing!
Speechless…

When family snaps become high art. This is truly amazing, Shane. Thank you for sharing.

the title ‘transcendeant’ says it all- a truly beautiful and haunting image!
Fitzy

wow. this is great.

Stunning shot, perfectly titled! HDR work at its most brilliant, well done!

Terrific image work…congrats on being in the Finding Harmony video :)

A modern vision of an angel. Great image, powerful and cinematic, Spielbergesque if I dare say.

great shot!

Quite an inspirational piece of art. Good job.

This is gorgeous!! Total work of art, nice one :-)

Nice work!

BRILLIANT

WOW. What a strong image. Almost ghost like. I love it :)

love the shot has a ghostly effect to it really cool:)

To recieve a compliment from someone so competent sincerely flatters me…..thank you so much.

I see you have a porfolio brimming with sensational, amazing and inspiring images yourself. This one in particular has an ethereal quality about it…..Wonderful light and composition. Bravo…exceptional

Wow man. One day I hope to take HDR’s like this…

Absolutely brilliant ! .. the light & shadows are stunning.

Wow!!!!
So great!!!!!!!!

Love the l*igh*ting!

Milan

wow!! are you in the mood and ambience group! you should put it in that group too!

what a great image! reminds me when I was younger at the beach, fab!

absolutely excellent shot Shane

thruly inspiring. Thank you ;)

amazing, i especially like the reflection in the water.

stunning image! love it!

Ethereal! really stunning..

Wonderfully inspirational.

Deserves all the comments. Fantastic work.

Featured in the HDR Group

This would make an excellent bookcover…brillian work

Absolutely brilliant, fantastic HDR!

This is so cool!

Excellent piece, the lighting especially.

Beautiful work!!!

This is beautiful :)

shane, I am so a sucker for backlighting. I mean, you could backlight a trash dump and I’d love it. So this is way cool. Jeez, I just scrolled down and see that you have many comments on this image. They are all deserved, IMHO!

magnificent!

I’m speechless! Transcendent… and surreal!

beautiful shot. very mesmerising.

brill photo and very mesmirising

Just WOW!!! Such a good use of HDR.

Shane, your imagination, vision on this one is marvelous!

amazing!

oh. my. god. this is seriously phenomenal! favorites!!!

Astounding image!!! Instant fave.
Peace,
sass

stunning shot

Great work :)

Too cool!

Hi! I featured your work in my blog—> Stark Silhouettes . Keep on.

Looks like a movie poster! Excellent!!!

This is EPIC!!

there is someone on DA claiming this image as there own and that the boy in the picture is theres as well.

Red bubblers unite!! He pinched my stuff too, so I’ve reported it as well. I just checked and his account has been suspended

BTW Shane, nice work!

I LoVe this….......................for so many reasons…I’m sure they ALL have been stated by now..so I’ll just put this into my FAVS and Thank YOU for sharing it with US :)))

Beautiful image

Colors,saturation and textures are great…...

A true photo from “Shane Night Spielmalanberg” ;-) Wicked atmosphere, so unreal, so poetic, so “beautiful end of the world”…

Back light , front light with colors well done.

WOW!! just amazing, I’ve seen the wonderful effects made with HDR, about time I started doing some HDR shots myself – keep up the great work!

gorgeous