Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction
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I was sitting quietly by this pond in early spring, enjoying the sun. The water was clear enough that several Large-mouth Bass could be seen lurking among the Spatterdock leaves. Because the fish were underwater, they don’t photograph with good sharpness. The surface ripples from the breeze added a similar lack of sharpness to the surface as well as adding reflections from the trees and sky, so the surface and the fish blended well. The blue ripple was a serendipitous addition. By eye, this fish was about 15 inches (27 cm) long. (R5, 100-500 @ 400, 1/200 s, f/11, tripod)