I was going to delete this...

[Denis]

 I thought that as I had cocked up the exposure I would just simply get shot of it. My wife actually likes it, so I would like to know if this type of exposure, where the foreground is in silhouette, is deemed acceptable in others eyes? I really cannot make my mind up  

 

 

[Phil]

The sky and lead-in are excellent but my personal taste would like to have seen just a touch of detail in the black areas, if shot in RAW it may be recovered?

[bugmeister]

Definitely worth keeping and if you can tease a bit of detail it would be even better.

[NannyFerret]

Nice sun rays in the sky and reflecting on the pathway.

It's apity there weren't a few more trees on the right to silhouette.

[Black Pearl]

Good shot - I'd prefer the path to be central but I'm being picky.

[Kobione]

I like it too, but agree about the black area .

[Heather]

although i do agree that a touch more detail in the black would be nice, i really like the light in this one, definatly a keeper for me

[Guest DaveW]

Don't mind the path on the left if the large clump of trees on the left had been on the right horizon instead to balance it.

[colinb]

Denis - I don't see any reason to delete it and as Phil suggest shooting raw  might have helped, I would add maybe shooting 3 bracketed shots would have given you a variation of exposures?

 

But to be fair the bright sun was always gong to be a problem - have you thought about a set of grad filters which would darken the sky whilst giving you chance with the foreground?