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I've shot landscapes for two dozen years. This is the first time I've done critiques on photo.net and will go down the landscape list just to see what kind of images people post here and how they are perceived. Long ago I lurked a bit but did comment because too much that people were positvie about grated against my own aesthetic sense.

This is the best of the 13 images I've critiqued this afternoon. First thing I like is the whole scene has been captured with an excellent exposure level. Areas both left and right in the background are a bit dimmer but each dim area retains nice character. The image sky background has a split left to right bilatteral symetry which is good. On the left is the bright sunlit part of the sky while on the right the sun is blocked at cloud level while still illuminating the higher blue sky elevations above. The snowy middle ground has a nice glow to it. I'm guessing this is the usual velvia red coming out which is often not in the actual experience. In any case the whole snowy plain is bathed in fine warm light providing a beautiful complement to the mottled painterly sky pattern. Their is something of a curvem maybe a iced over river at right middel ground which complements the brighter blue hole on the right side of the sky. By positioning the left boundary of that curve in line with center frame it enhances the scene's geometry. If this is a medium or larger format image, I'd guess the foreground might provide some nice texture one cannot see in such a web sized viewing image.

Very nice Winter scene Lee.

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