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Critiques and ratings welcome.

Sincerely, Jukka

I love the tranquility of this image.

Jukka,

I like the softness and tranquility here too.  The vertical shot - looks like a cropped horizontal unless it's medium format - creates an excellent composition.  The small and larger, but still "junior" tree work together real well.  The only question I have, and it's not a negative remark, is whether you have enough different gray values in the image.  It's strictly a judgment call.  I realize that creating more contrast might diminish the mood you are trying to create.  Nice work.  Best regards.  Larry

Larry brought up the fact of limited contrast, and that struck me as well when I first viewed this photo.  Larry also brought out the fact that this is a judgement call, and the amount of contrast (little or lots) will affect the mood of the photo.  I want to add that when I viewed the photo, I felt the limited contrast was a positive attribute for this particular composition.  In a way, it's rather an odd or unusual composition, and I like the overall uniformity produced by the limited contrast.  Nothing stands out in terms of tone, which makes composition an even more important quality.  And if the composition is unusual, it's good to bring as much attention as possible to that aspect of the photo.  I agree -- it's nice work.

Great mood, really very nice capture.

Jukka,

Quite a simple and elegant composition that works very well.   The two trees are almost symbolic showing a sense of relativity almost family like.  Father and son or mother and daughter.  That speaks. 

Steve

I love this image. Well done.

I also pondered contrast for a while but I think Stephen and Larry have sumed it up quite well.

Nice

You forced to hard to get the detail of the tree and created an almost high-key image out of it. The contrast of the foreground and the background are the same. Witch, make the image a little flat. It is an individual preference, but, I would darken the foreground subjects. IMHO.

Cheers.