Quietude

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

Calm enough for the title? Enough river reflection to provide a sense of place?

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

Leafless alder trees under leaden skies line the Sauk River in a brief period of calm following a light snowfall.

Technical Details

Canon EOS 5D II, EF 70-200mm @ 70mm; f/11 @ 0.8 sec, +2 EV, ISO 100; Gitzo tripod, RRS BH 55; Remote trigger

Specific Feedback

Title appropriate? Can you hear the “Sound of Silence?”