May I suggest a holiday? (MSA)

Love how you did the bottom. Could look great in black and white as well.

Ah, wish I could take you up on your "suggestion"! It looks delightful! Great shot. Water is amazing!

The image was not "done" partially in any way. It's straight off the scanner, with a pass of Neat Image to reduce scan "grain noise" and Focus Magic for sharpness. And of course Irfanview to reduce it in size via Lanczos interpolation. Other than that, no extra zone processing whatsoever.

Excellent photograph - beautiful colors and impressive details and sharpness ! Your photograph is a great suggestion to try some slide film ...

Jumping Dolphin, great shot!!!

Thanks, everyone. I've been experimenting with Provia 100F over-exposed and with -1 development. It makes it more similar to my all time preferred slide film - Astia 100 - which unfortunately is now well and truly gone. If anything, I have to slightly reduce the "chroma" setting on the scanner so I don't get as much saturation. For this I totally relied on the AF of the F6: I usually set it to zone and let it find the ideal spot when I'm taking action shots of the surfers and it was perfect for this one! Pixel-peeping I can see the dolphin is in perfect focus which means the AF was smart enough to "detect" the movement and clamp on to it. It'd have been impossible to take this otherwise: the dolphin was just too fast for me! Totally a luck shot. I was soooo nervous waiting for the film to be developed...