The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.
general feedback, ideas
works really well in contrasty Mono
Fits the subject well
Light Foreground - darker background works well
Great post!
Huw
Delton: I do very little B&W work and almost nothing with plants but this is excellent. Great textures and lines and I like how you filled the frame. Really nicely see, captured, converted and presented. 
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A lovely image, with pleasing leaf shapes, and the B/W looks nice. Often branches in the BG would be distracting but I don’t mind these, maybe because they are all going in similar directions.
There are some very OOF areas where the FG leaves are against the BG branches. That looks like the way PS is limited in handling a focus stack. If you do have a stack, you can generally get better results with Zerene Stacker or Helicon Focus. You don’t give any information but issues like this are lessened with smaller apertures.
Hi Delton,
Nice application of the weekly theme! I like the monochromatic treatment. We can imagine the color (whether we are accurate or not), in a drying, folding leaf tangled in branches. Nicely done.
ML
Delton, the textural contrast between the swirly leafs and the branches looks great, with your choice of B&W making that contrast the main element in the photo. I also like that there’s a lot going on in the view.
Simple object, rich image. Just two leaves filled the frame and their fancy shape set against plain branches looks great. Very well done, Delton. Black and white was a good choice.
Just a few minor things. There are two flashes on the branch in the ULC. The lightest parts of the leaves are a bit too luminous to me (ULC and bottom), if possible I would try to dim them a little. These can be ingored but traces of the editing tools used are more important. The most visible is the removed stalk or balde, I guess you had to do it but I would consider keeping it. The other is at he intersection of two leaves in the LRC. There is one more just above that intersection. If your software doesn’t allow correcting it, leave the image as it is, it looks great anyway.
[D1] removed stalk
[D2] leaves intersection
[D3] unknown trace
