Excellent suggestion, Ian. Thanks.

The tree was also dead (or dying) which seemed to fit the scene. Happy New Year, Frances.

Thanks very much, William. Best wishes for the New Year.

Actually, I just checked other photos. To the left is an equipment shed and then the parking lot. Still bad luck.

I, too, would have preferred a landscape version, except that this house is actually a work facility of some kind (maybe boat repair), so to the immediate left is a storage area for equipment, taking up about half the missing mountain and to the left of that is the parking lot of a waterside restaurant (very good!) which cluttered up the view of the rest of the mountain. Short of massive photoshopping, portrait position was the best I could do. The Photographer's Curse! Thank you very much for your comment, Frances.

Thanks very much, Frances.

Thanks very much, Taya. I would enjoy a webinar from you on your use of color in editing.

Thanks for the comment, Frances. I didn't see the "pinkness" at first, but I went into Lr and used Auto WB. The above re-do is what came out. It looks like what I remembered. I can't recall precisely but my camera's WB may have been set on a "shade" setting which added red to the original post. (I also tried the dropper but the results were either garish or washed out.)

Frances, brilliant timing and really great shot. I used to live in Tarrytown and now wish I still did to get pix like this. Brendan Bovaird

Thanks very much for the comment, Frances. This is the photo that came out of the camera on Auto WB, but I suspect that the camera may have overreacted to the lighting and/or the heavily blue color objects in the photo. I will definitely look at adjusting the skin tones. Part of my attraction to this photo is that it is something of the street photographer's version of Cezanne's "The Card Players" and the one we have here in Philly at the Barnes Foundation has a decidedly blue cast to it. Thanks again.

Hi Ian, I missed the last webinar because of travel but I just caught up with it online. Thanks very much for the shout out on my Lofoten photo. If it's any consolation, I walked to that photo from the left and at first tried to align the pitched roof of the red house with the peak of the mountain in the background. Because of the angle needed to include the peak, I could not get a good angle on the house -- the roofline would not square up. I think you might have gotten the shot you wanted from a boat but not the shore. If you try it again and succeed, I'd like to see it. Thanks again.

Thanks very much for the comments, Ian. I like your version very much. I do have a certain fondness for my photo since within five minutes of taking it the fog had covered both mountains, leaving only the red house sitting in the middle of the water. No chance for retakes. The Halong Bay photo was taken from a seaplane at sunset which is intense on the bay. Between the sunset light and, I suspect, the tinting on the airplane window, the photo already had a very reddish cast. Instead of removing the colorcast, I decided to saturate the color a bit. I thought the result had a slightly jewel-like quality to it. Thanks again!

And thank you for the comment!

Yes, it is Lofoten.