Bonnets and Blue

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Critique Style Requested: Standard

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Description

My wife was recovering from hip surgery and I had to stick around the house caring for her during this year’s wildflower season. I did manage to get out one day and wandered around Washington and Grimes counties. Caught this scene with my drone. I had several with different reflections in the pond from the clouds as well as their shadows passing over the field. Thought this was the best of the bunch. >=))>

Specific Feedback

Fairly large crop for comp off the original capture to give the pond more emphasis. Interesting subject or meh?

Technical Details

DJI Mini 3 Pro, CPL
ISO 100, 1/500 @ f1.7

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Fantastic colors, Bill. Difficult to get the best angle for flowers and sky combined, I imagine, but this is good. Maybe brighten the lower half a bit to match the upper half? Or would that then be too unnatural? I can picture this as a symmetrical pair, if you flip it horizontally and join the two together (just for fun). The 2 ponds might then look like a pair of exotic eyes.

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Beautiful, delicate and subtle colors and I like the composition. It is a good subject - not a “wow” image but a very relaxing and serene view. Nice!
ps: the idea of the Buddha-like eyes sound interesting!

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Beautiful image. The composition is especially brilliant.

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oooohhhh, what a fine, gentle collection of colors and shapes, Bill. Nicely abstract.

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I missed this one before but need to add a “Super!” Such a nice aerial view. I love the increasing brightness toward the top and the lovely sky reflection. Well seen and presented!