# Long arms **URL:** \ **Category:** Image Critiques\ **Tags:** landscape\ **Created:** [June 26, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/long-arms/15145 "2020-06-26T10:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ben\_van\_der\_Sande](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/ben_van_der_sande/32/5511_2.png) [@Ben\_van\_der\_Sande](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Ben_van_der_Sande)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/long-arms/15145/1 "2020-06-26T10:09:28Z")
![longarms](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/9/2/922de00ffbf53e25ccaa57ccdc0734d491a7ebab.jpeg) In my green jacket With my too long arms reaching Try to touch the sky ### What technical feedback would you like if any? ### What artistic feedback would you like if any? All feedback is more than welcome ### Pertinent technical details or techniques: (If this is a composite, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn) ###### If you would like your image to be eligible for a feature on the NPN Instagram (@NaturePhotoNet), add the tag ‘ig’ and leave your Instagram username below. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Freeman](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/shirley_freeman/32/11361_2.png) [@Shirley\_Freeman](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Shirley_Freeman)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/long-arms/15145/2 "2020-06-26T16:16:28Z")
What a great find, and wonderful capture. The lighting is sweet, the leading lines carries me all the way up through the image. Love all the green lichen on the tree. Well seen and captured. ---
**Author:** ![Adhika\_Lie](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/adhika_lie/32/15928_2.png) [@Adhika\_Lie](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Adhika_Lie)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/long-arms/15145/3 "2020-06-26T19:45:08Z")
The light is super sweet and I think the composition is very strong, Ben. The only suggestion I have is to clone out the branch that makes a triangle on the lower left corner of the image. ---
**Author:** ![Kerry\_Gordon](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/kerry_gordon/32/5610_2.png) [@Kerry\_Gordon](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Kerry_Gordon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/long-arms/15145/4 "2020-06-27T16:40:29Z")
Oh great tree Climbing towards the sky But slowly, slowly. With apologies to Issa 😉. ---
**Author:** ![Kerry\_Gordon](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/kerry_gordon/32/5610_2.png) [@Kerry\_Gordon](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Kerry_Gordon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/long-arms/15145/5 "2020-06-27T16:50:53Z")
Ben, I hope you don’t mind a bit of critique on this image. I have been looking at it for the last day or so and wondering why it doesn’t affect me more than it does. It seems to have everything right. But then it occurred to me that while it has amazing leading lines - both the structure of the tree itself and the light - those lines don’t lead me anywhere. There is no denouement. It kind of leaves me flat and perhaps a bit disappointed. Just some thoughts and feelings that I plan to put in my own back pocket for future reference. ---
**Author:** ![Ben\_van\_der\_Sande](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/ben_van_der_sande/32/5511_2.png) [@Ben\_van\_der\_Sande](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Ben_van_der_Sande)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/long-arms/15145/6 "2020-06-27T18:06:18Z")
> [@Shirley\_Freeman](#): > > What a great find, and wonderful capture. The lighting is sweet, the leading lines carries me all the way up through the image. Love all the green lichen on the tree. Well seen and captured. Thank you so much for your nice comment, @Shirley_Freeman ---
**Author:** ![Ben\_van\_der\_Sande](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/ben_van_der_sande/32/5511_2.png) [@Ben\_van\_der\_Sande](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Ben_van_der_Sande)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/long-arms/15145/7 "2020-06-27T18:08:01Z")
> [@Adhika\_Lie](#): > > The light is super sweet and I think the composition is very strong, Ben. The only suggestion I have is to clone out the branch that makes a triangle on the lower left corner of the image. Thank you for your as always helpful comment, @Adhika_Lie ---
**Author:** ![Ben\_van\_der\_Sande](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/ben_van_der_sande/32/5511_2.png) [@Ben\_van\_der\_Sande](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Ben_van_der_Sande)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/long-arms/15145/8 "2020-06-27T18:23:32Z")
> [@Kerry\_Gordon](#): > > …ffect me more than it does. It seems to have everything right. But then it occurred to me that while it has amazing leading lines - both the structure of the tree itself and the light - those lines don’t lead me anywhere. There is no denouement. It kind of leaves me flat and perhaps a bit disappointed. Just some thoughts and feelings that I plan to put in my own back pocket for future reference. @Kerry_Gordon, Kerry ,I am here on NPN in the hope to get good critiques or comments. I have to thank you for the time you spent on my image. I see what you write about the denouement and I think you are right. But perhaps the denouement is in the unknown. To be honest I never thought about it but learned, to just like you put it in my back pocket for future reference. BTW nice haiku !!