~the high key affect works for me, also, the deep dark contrast of the lone fisherman is a fine detail to compliment all the stark white~

That would be perfect for a book cover, although it'd be a shame to spoil it with text.

What an image! This is how b/w should be! Also like the reflection.

I like the lone fisherman who appears to be facing the "great unknown" which seems to be enhanced by the higher contrast. Nicely composed.

That is a gorgeous shot, well done.

This is great! I like the idea of a book cover too. It looks like a story. great work!

Beautiful approach to a common topic in "beach photography". Did much of it is postprocessing?. I mean, did you overexposed when you took the shot or did you alter levels afterwards in the computer?. Anyway it doesn't matter at all, the result is beautiful. It has the right amount of information to make it dreamy but interesting. I think that it would also work really well as a backdrop for my windows desktop, or even better, to my T5 PDA :D. May be I'll try if you don't mind :D. Beautiful!.

Rafa:

Actually, this isn't the result of post-processing - I did almost no levels or curves adjustments. It's actually just the result of how I did the converstion from color to b&w. This scene had so much green and blue in it that when I converted mainly along those channels, those areas simply became white. The black or grey areas you're seeing are those that were primarily represented by the red channel.

As for sending it as a backdrop for your windwos or PDA desktop, I'm happy to send it to you. Just let me know the dimensions you want!

Excellent convertion! well done :)

Wow! Very evocative...

Very nice - I love how blown out this is and the high contrast.

Wow, great shot - I just love the high key here.

marvellous b&w photos!

i like this one a lot, the high key effect really enhances the scene

really like the composition... awesome.