# A Warp in Reality **URL:** \ **Category:** Image Critiques\ **Tags:** editors-pick, non-nature\ **Created:** [April 19, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917 "2024-04-19T17:18:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bonnie\_Lampley](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/bonnie_lampley/32/4825_2.png) [@Bonnie\_Lampley](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Bonnie_Lampley)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917/1 "2024-04-19T17:18:23Z")
![Anderson_041424_4130 copy.jpg](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/c/1/c12d26afec6528e075428ec7794858737cf90ad7.jpeg) > **Critique Style Requested:** _Initial Reaction_ > > Please share your immediate response to the image before reading the photographer’s intent (obscured text below) or other comments. The photographer seeks a genuinely unbiased first impression. ### Questions to guide your feedback Looking for your initial reaction, whatever that may be. ### Other Information _Please leave your feedback before viewing the blurred information below, once you have replied, click to reveal the text and see if your assessment aligns with the photographer. Remember, this if for their benefit to learn what your unbiased reaction is._ ### Image Description There is a local nursery that never disappoints as far as photographic interest. I always bring my camera while my husband shops. The tender plant section always has shade cloth over and around it. Where the trees in there touch the cloth, interesting patterns occur. ### Technical Details ![Screen Shot 2024-04-19 at 10.13.23 AM](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/2/6/26a9902c5b0fb17fa288108e5ee0e0b24fe1d2ef.png) Hand held, exposure/contrast adjustments. This is not a selective color type image, even though it looks like it. ### Specific Feedback Do you sense a relationship between the tree and the “background”? Does the apparent selective color look contrived? ---
**Author:** ![Dennis\_Plank](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/dennis_plank/32/27033_2.png) [@Dennis\_Plank](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Dennis_Plank)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917/2 "2024-04-19T19:09:05Z")
Looks like some of my clothes, Bonnie 😁 I really like what you did with this one. The distorted layer adds some real interest to the image and the branch tries to anchor it in reality. A neat dichotomy. I’m not sure about the green leaves. To me they don’t seem to add to the story. Now that I’ve read your description, I realize it’s not two layers and that makes it even more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_Gavin](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jim\_Gavin](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Jim_Gavin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917/3 "2024-04-19T21:51:33Z")
My first response: Takes me back to many years ago when I used to use Door screening to add interest to scenes. This looks like it was taken through a damaged screen of the tree limb and some shingles on a roof. Great image. Like it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Peters](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/don_peters/32/87970_2.png) [@Don\_Peters](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Don_Peters)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917/4 "2024-04-20T00:36:14Z")
My first reaction was to be mystified but intrigued. That’s good. ---
**Author:** ![Bonnie\_Lampley](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/bonnie_lampley/32/4825_2.png) [@Bonnie\_Lampley](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Bonnie_Lampley)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917/5 "2024-04-21T22:19:05Z")
Thanks, @Don_Peters, @Jim_Gavin and, @Dennis_Plank. I hear you about the green leaves, Dennis. I do like the green color; I tried b&w, but the leaves just looked blobby no matter what I tried. I think it wouldn’t be amiss to dial back the saturation, though. Thanks. Oh, and thanks for the EP! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Sandor](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/richard_sandor/32/88084_2.png) [@Richard\_Sandor](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Richard_Sandor)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917/6 "2024-05-03T00:12:44Z")
Bonnie: as a rare visitor to this site I have to say I was really intrigued by your photo and wondered just how was it done? In any event, I really like it and think that the touch of green gives the photo just the right bit of a central interest point. Very creative. ---
**Author:** ![Ric\_Federico](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/ric_federico/32/22998_2.png) [@Ric\_Federico](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Ric_Federico)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917/7 "2024-05-03T01:19:05Z")
@Bonnie_Lampley my initial reaction is to sit with the image for a while, let my eye play over and through it, and enjoy the pleasing aesthetic, motion, and intrigue of it. That’s a successful image to me. Well done! ---
**Author:** ![Bonnie\_Lampley](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/bonnie_lampley/32/4825_2.png) [@Bonnie\_Lampley](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Bonnie_Lampley)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917/8 "2024-05-03T16:52:37Z")
Thanks, @Richard_Sandor and @Ric_Federico. > [@Richard\_Sandor](#): > > …how was it done? This is a straight-ahead photo, Richard. I was looking up at shade cloth covering part of a plant nursery area. Where the trees growing beneath the cloth touch the cloth, it becomes deformed and makes that interesting pattern. I exposed for the overcast sky, so the tree became a silhouette except for the leaves. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Sandor](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/richard_sandor/32/88084_2.png) [@Richard\_Sandor](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Richard_Sandor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/a-warp-in-reality/40917/9 "2024-05-07T23:00:16Z")
Thanks Bonnie for the info and congrats on a well deserved Editor’s Pick.