Does this work?

Took this a while ago, but can't decide whether I like it or not - what do you think?

For me it does, but I love this sort of stuff. Contra jour and all that

I may be tempted to remove the figures form it though, but I like pics with large spaces.

Yes it works for me too, its beautiful, but like Ste, Id probably remove the humans. Love the huge sun.

Sorry, for me it's boring. There's no foreground or background interest. Nothing draws the eye. If you had a starburst filter it might improve the shot but you need something more than a sun and empty beach.

Not quite for me Azz.

I think the sun is so dominant that it almost hurts the eyes and stops me from looking around the image.

I tried sliding the sun just out of sight and found that the colours in the image looked more saturated and improved the image.

Steve

Basically I liked it.

I agree the sun is a bit overpowering and a tad harsh on the eye, but overall I found it a pleasing shot.
I felt the human figures gave it a reference for scale and enhanced the impression of space and emptiness which is what I felt the shot portrayed well, along with a sense of tranquility from the calm sea.

A less intense sun and a tad more colour would have been better but I like the content.

I love sunset shots, and I really like this one, great colours doesn't bother me that there is no foreground interest.

I like it too! As I really love sunset/rises. The people give you something else to look too.

There is nothing to dislike about the image but I feel it would benefit from more detail particularly in the sky and the sea. This is not meant in any way to be offencive but it would be a good starting point for a editing competition, we would see how an image that does not quite fulfil it's promise could be improved by processing.

Thanks guys, I wasn't really keen on it myself, but someone saw it and said they liked it so confused me

Nice to see what everyone else thinks too