Maple Blossoms

Image Critiques Weekly Challenge
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Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction

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

Eyes travel inside or not?

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.

Technical Details

This comprises a focus stack of a few exposures. Between parallax of the zoom settings, and a bit of movement in the very slight breeze, dealing with the appearance of unwanted details from the exposure layers was fiendish.
Canon R5, 100-400 lens at 263 mm 1/320 sec
Helicon Focus, Topaz Sharpen AI
Lightroom, Photoshop

Specific Feedback

I enjoy this (and photos like this) when my eye can travel around and discover new details and textures. Some folks like a more obvious point of visual interest. How about you?

Critique Template

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This piece just draws me in with its peacefulness. It gives me a lovely sense of the flowers being held - well, of their loveliness being held and offered up. You’ve done a tremendous job of projecting this with the layers of tonality changes starting with the flowers, to the leaves, to the tree trunk, to the darkness behind. Very well done Dick.