A dream with the hallucinatory intensity of a full blown acid trip (as I remember them over forty years later). I hope you get your back straightened out (no pun intended) as quickly as possible, Mark...

Looks like the great fear..gridlock! In a fabulous setting

Yes, as Claude said, distant memories of chemically-enhanced visions, only this is much prettier than anything I ever saw in my misguided youth! I love the range of reds and golds, like an autumnal flame overhead with the parked cars seeming to have parted for the one in the distance to approach. What a fascinating image this is, Mark! Another one that should be quite huge on the wall of some public place, maybe over a large collection of seats for waiting, so people can sit and contemplate all that there is to see here. I hope your back behaves; mine doesn't, and no amount of treatments seems to help. Hopefully yours do! And prayers and positive thoughts for whoever it is that lost someone dear, that's so sad :{

marvellous work

It's so beautiful, Mark, like a golden archway to a place of loving and enveloping warmth. Athena would be very happy amongst all that beauty. Hugs, Carol.

Because of previously mentioned time restrictions, I'm really going to cheat this time and echo MrsRatbag in her assessment of this oil painting-like image, with the abstract effects of the colors gold and red, and whatever lies between, Mark. A great depth and kaleidoscopic shot, exuding an ambience I would love to see in parched Southern California. A similar image taken here would be in a simple bland khaki color.

Long co,mments or short my friend it matters not I am just happy to know your there and that we all appreciate each other hope you get relief for your back its one helluva problem whenthe back goes it always just happens unexpectedly then you get that pain then you know what its alll about take care Mark till next time friend!!

Oh, this is fabulous when zoomed! Isn't it funny, but most commenters here probably will wax eloquent about the trees with their abundance and striking colors of autumn... Me? Wow, look at the highlights and sparkles, colors and reflections on all those cars. And the oncoming headlights? Since this is a dream, don't worry, you'll wake up just before you get runover:-) Layers, sliders, maybe a bit of blending. Great job Mark. As for the subject of pain...never pleasant but it does give reason to dream. Here's something I came across you may find interesting: "Our pleasures connect us to the world, it seems, but pain condemns us to isolation. There are odes to pleasure, and paintings, plays, symphonies and operas that celebrate its infinite variety; but there are no works of art that express the nothingness of pain. Tales of Prometheus on his rock or images of Christ on the cross may move us, but they say nothing about what their pain may have felt like. Pain, as Virginia Woolf observed, lies beyond the bounds of art: "The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare and Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language itself runs dry." Joanna Bourke

The light, even when simplified like this, is arresting! My eye keeps going back and back again to those branches in the center, limned with light. Bill is right about the cars. They catch and reflect and throw the light, and add sparkle to the image. Of course a row of new aluminum trash cans would have done the same thing ... it's not the cars that I find interesting of course, it's the light! :P

I really like Bill and Taras' comments! The image is very exciting, and it makes what I normally think of as a horrid dieselly smell producing mess look delicious!

I'm with Bill, the cars just ROCK!! And I saw a very similar street scene somewhere along HWY 20---the tunnel of trees with cars lining the street. It wasn't nearly as cool as this!!

Mark, this is simply outstanding work as we are quickly becoming accustomed to upon visiting your gallery. You have taken what most certainly was a sensational a team photo showcasing this public setting and turned it into an epic dream sequence. The vast array of colors on display here are quickly becoming one of your signatures. I can't even begin to imagine the difficulty you had when with timing out this capture considering the setting. Your photography's skills as well as your techniques are growing by leaps and bounds.

OHH THis Hugging trees. The trees seem to hug the street and make people feel safe under the wonderfully colored leaves. And yes, I agree with Andrea, that the reflections in the cars are really adding to the already wonderful image. LOVE IT !!!