Muneer said
Brian, I like the 1st shot (night shot), its really amazing.

Thanks Muneer.  Much appreciated.  I like how it came out too.

Mandrake said
Love the first image.  
It's really nice that the sky and water are both the same tone of blue.
Was this the way it was, or did you give it some help in post?

and.. You must have been leaning pretty far over that railing to get the shot.

ps... a serious transgression - posting topics in the wrong forum.

Thanks Mandrake.  I changed the white balance of the shot.  Everything was orange from the lights that were in the area.   So while it wasn't what came out of the camera, it is closer to what was there in real life.  The water and sky were just about the same.  It was really quite the sight.

And never mind any safety regulations that might have been 'bent' to get the shot

I do really like the motion blur effect though and think it would work very well with layer mask use for detailed work.

Here is the unblured photo if you wish to play with it.

Good luck, Mandrake.

• use Rectangular Marquee tool to select the area which should not be blur
• Then press Ctl+shft+I (inverse) to auto select the remaining portion
• Then choose motion blur from filter menu and do some changes
• Then press Ctl+D to deselect the selected portion
• Use the Blur tool to do some final works. This one easy way to do the same changes for beginners.

and.. You must have been leaning pretty far over that railing to get the shot.

ps... a serious transgression - posting topics in the wrong forum.

Here are some real night shots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/b.....005112135/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/b.....005087384/

However, I have made a tilt shift lightroom action that I made following instructions from an online tutorial, but it doesn't do as good a job as what my camera produces natively.