# Looking up

**URL:** <https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/looking-up/49163>\
**Category:** Image Critiques\
**Tags:** abstract\
**Created:** [December 24, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/looking-up/49163 "2025-12-24T15:25:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**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:** [December 24, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/looking-up/49163/1 "2025-12-24T15:25:10Z")

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![Looking up c-.jpg](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/5/8/586fd81ffad9000cf5a0f42b5d61a808816db558.jpeg)

> **Critique Style Requested:** _Initial Reaction_
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> 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

Does this one evoke any response?

### 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

This one took about six weeks to incubate. It doesn’t really fit in any category but it’s certainly not meant to be representational, so I’ll call it abstract.

### Technical Details

ISO 100, 77mm, f/22, 1/15th sec.

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### Critique Template

Use of the template is optional, but it can help spark ideas.

Vision and Purpose:  
Conceptual:  
Emotional Impact and Mood:  
Composition:  
Balance and Visual Weight:  
Depth and Dimension:  
Color:  
Lighting:  
Processing:  
Technical:

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**Author:** ![Gill\_Vanderlip](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/gill_vanderlip/32/54254_2.png) [@Gill\_Vanderlip](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Gill_Vanderlip)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/looking-up/49163/2 "2025-12-25T04:52:46Z")

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Great Tone and Lines in your Image. I love the light on the tree on the left. Very Cool !!!

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**Author:** ![Diane\_Miller](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/diane_miller/32/27391_2.png) [@Diane\_Miller](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Diane_Miller)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/looking-up/49163/3 "2025-12-26T18:10:17Z")

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Yes, VERY cool!! For me it evokes a WOW! The ghost tree is reaching out to the one that is still in our world, in a tentative entwining embrace. Which one is saying come hither to the other?

A fantastic idea SO well done!

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**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:** [December 26, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/looking-up/49163/4 "2025-12-26T20:14:15Z")

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Diane, it’s gratifying to hear your reaction. Thanks!