It Does Not Have To Be Sharp To Be Clear

agreed

Me too :-) There is a sense of cheerfulness and positivity in your capture..

Very good abstract.... Best regards, Valentyn

UFO's!  Cupid's arrow.  Kite run amok.  Clarity is overrated.  It interferes with imagination.

It depends on your intent.  If you are simply invoking 'artistic license', and this was your pre-visualized result then you have accomplished your goal.  Otherwise, to me, it looks like a failed focusing issue.  I like the placement of the kite in the frame and the contrasting red & blue colours but I've spent a lot of money to purchase equipment which allows for sharp photos so anything less for me is a miss.  As I said, it depends on your intent.  Best, LM.

Len,

Many thanks for your thoughtful comment on this one.

You are of course right about intent and pre-visualization, especially for works of artists. For me, the mortal, things may not be that simple, however.

It was a beautiful day, late morning, high altitude, away from big cities...

I guess my intent was to record the sky with some thin clouds, a happy kite and the marks of a passing jet plane. I was not particularly interested in capturing all very crisply; although this amount of blur was not intended either. I took two shots using the screen of my little camera (and this proved rather difficult to do under bright light, with glasses, against time!). In one of them I was able able to record everything I wanted (pre-visualized) fairly sharply. Unfortunately, they were not at places where I wanted them to be! At night, on my computer screen, I have noted (while deleting stuff) that the other one was, somehow, better. Better in describing how I felt, then. It lacked the jet marks and was, as you said, blurry.

Essentially, I am not really sure what my intent was. If I were really an artist, and a good one, I should have pre-visualized this one. It simply makes me feel good!

I add the other one, which failed to satisfy me this time.