Act of desperation #6

Yet another time, your acts of desperation (shall we just call it barrel-scraping?) bless us with beautiful images we'd never had seen otherwise! Good!

Those flowing leaves, which manage to retain their starred shapes in their visual wakes, are magnificent and hypnotic.

At first sight, I though they would have gained from a tighter framing...but then I realised that is the multitude of still leaves, and the justapoxition of the motion of the few against the stillness of the mass, which really makes the shot.

At second sight, I though I could have done without the highest part of the image: the thick black bar being too much of a visual separation between the leaves up there and the rest of them... but -slowly- that small structure hanging down, seemingly bridging the gap, is starting to grow on me and unify the image into one.

Jeff, this is a good shot! Compositionally I wouldn't change a thing. There is so much detail and the leaves are well defined; they are like little gold stars. That motion is truly the icing on the cake.

Probably impossible to attain, but I'd try for as much detail as possible in the black, if this were my tranny.