After the storm

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After the storm
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This willow suffered from the weight of a snow storm that slammed the west coast of British Columbia in mid February. The snow storm was just the start of the story. After the storm passed, temperatures dropped to freezing and caused greater weight on the limbs of this Willow. The weight was enough for a large limb to give way from the trunk . The end result is what you see in this image.

Type of Critique Requested

  • Aesthetic: Feedback on the overall visual appeal of the image, including its color, lighting, cropping, and composition.
  • Conceptual: Feedback on the message and story conveyed by the image.
  • Emotional: Feedback on the emotional impact and artistic value of the image.
  • Technical: Feedback on the technical aspects of the image, such as exposure, color, focus and reproduction of colors and details, post-processing, and print quality.

Specific Feedback and Self-Critique

I think this image tells a story of struggle between the living entity and its environment. live in harmony with its surroundings or give way to its force. In this case it was the latter. I brought out the colour of the limbs and the separation from the trunk to emphasize the damage. I surrounded it with a dark (ominous) sky and the bleakness of the snow around it to show the aftermath.

Technical Details

I shot a number of images as I’m going to make this into a project - the damage and regrowth over time. This image was shot with a 14 Pro Max iPhone as it was the only device I had! I’ll post the regrowth of this tree as time goes on as Willows in our neck of the woods can not be cut down by law.

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Duncan,again a fine image from you, with a great story in it ! I did try a rework.
Lichtend the darks just a little, Made the orange colors a little darker. And I don’t know what it is but I tried to take out the red cloth in the middle.
I made a crop to 16-9 .To make the tree the important subject and the snow a bit less.
Hope you like this rework.
Ben

rework
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Duncan, I like the image and the story behind it. The grey, cloudy sky shows us something of the weather that took this tree down. Probably inevitable, the image is a bit chaotic. But that is the way trees go down in a storm.
I like the tighter crop as proposed by @Ben_van_der_Sande . Ben, I think that the “red cloth” is a fracture, the place where the big branch broke.

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Han, I see it, it’s a fracture ,thanks :smiley:

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I’m thinking that I should have tried to make the fracture more apparent . Just wasn’t sure how to do that!