So my solution: It's a tie - but the best, most impressive bit is both images are the work of the same photographer.
Great work Gerry.
For this first one I've said a little in the original post, post but I'll say some of that again here. The evenly exposed "natural" light of the image together with the long exposure effect on the water adds a lovely surreal quality for me. This is further enhanced by the saturated, but not over the top colours. Compositionally the person in the middle distance keeps the eye nicely anchored in the image. Interestingly Gerry makes this comment about the image "I am not a big fan of the picture to be honest, however it is growing on me, that will fade by the end of the weekend though." What would he know
This second image (original post HERE) is very different to a lot of what we see here. While macro shots pop up from time to time (noticeably some excellent fungi shots from Colin) they rarely impact me as strongly as this one does. It's got fantastically solid composition, awesome DOF (always a challenge in a macro shot) and so much bloody detail I spent considerable time lingering over the beauty of the ugly creature (and yes I know that sounds contradictory)
