quite inviting ...let me go in ...thanks ;-)

... like the subject, the comp and the treatment, the whites are clean, but not blown, a kind of super realism. That little corner of building in the shadow on the right could be replaced with sky.

Thanks for commenting, Gentlemen. I was a little disappointed in the colors that came out on my uploaded version of this shot, myself. I was especially impressed with the great colors that I got from my E1--the very "Kodachrome like" primary colors, but on my monitor the MFT version has an overall magenta tinge that wasn't on my screen in the original. I haven't quite figured out a solution to this problem. I do see what you mean about the building to the right, Stirling, and I agree with you. I guess I was trying to preserve the original realism a little much.

I have no problem with the colors, they looks great and beautiful to my eyes; especially the red, white, and the blue sky.

As for your problem, make sure you saved your image in sRGB (converted to sRGB), as I have probably the same problem when I saved an image in ProPhoto RGB.

George,

I don't any magenta cast. Could be color management issue with your browser. I loaded it into LR4 and sampled the whites numerous places. Most everywhere within half a precent of pure white. If anything there is a little cool tint but very minor. My eyes see some magenta vertical stripes next to shadows on the left back building but it's an optical illusion since I can't measure it. There is an aspect of color psychology involved with this. The classic treatment was called something like simultaneous contrast identified by Michel Eugène Chevreul.

I looked at 800% and there are some warm artifacts of some sort along the shadow highlight border. I think this is pretty normal. Lots of weird things happen on borders between dark an light. If you get the vertical dark/light borders dense enough the you might begin to see an over cast. But that's really not a problem with this image.

Thanks again Sterling and thanks Yoki. I have isolated my problem and have found a cure, although not an explanation. It's my browser! I have been using Google's Chrome, but when I used Mozilla's Firefox or Microsoft's Internet Explorer the problem was not there. Funny that I had never noticed that before. I'll just stop using Chrome at least until I figure it out. I really do appreciate your comments.