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Really nice. the mirroring makes her look enclosed in a room to me.

Nice shot!

Thank you for your opinion, this aprt might be distracting, but I

like to make it more clear she hsa flowers in the hand. Jean

I tried the cropping and I cannot really make my mind up about which is better. In the cropped version it becomes more obvious that the top part of the background is a mirror of the bottom and once you notice that you cannot ignore it, not even in the other version. You have caught a great moment. Was it really necessary to modify the background? Regards, SV

Nope. I wouldn't. The green helps orient the viewer, which is especially important with the reflected background. Great job!

Like the dynamics.

I would certainly crop it out, myself. Flowers? Even after your reference to flowers, i still have trouble seeing them, and I don't think the corner in question is helping with making them more visible. Orients the viewer? I disagree with the need for being oriented, although the statement might be true. Where there was sky, there are now puddles, so the intent seems to be to disorient, therefore nulling the need to provide an orientation. I think the corner contributes negatively to the simple purity of everything else about the image. The monotony of the repeating shapes of the puddle is absolutely shattered by the figure of the child, which is instantly recognizable and completely energizing.

 

Crop it.

I think that it is a fantastic shot. Full of life, surrealistic and intriguing

Clever composition. Congrats, Jean.

I really like the effect created here. Of course there is the surreal feeling but it also lets me 'study' the beauty of the puddles (their shapes, repetition, colour) without the reflections which I find intriguing. I think I'm in favour of cropping the flowers. I think it works ok both ways, but I prefer the more abstract feeling it has without the flowers.

Alice in Wonderland type of photo, and a wonderful example of it; magical.