Time for Growth

Weekly Challenge

The Humble Subject
8/2/26 - 8/8/26
Critique Style: Standard

The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.

Feedback Focus: Artistic / Expressive

About This Image

While hiking this scene presented itself as a morning light highlighted the sapling that was standing in front of the mature pine. It gave me a feeling of time and age with the new sapling.

Feedback Requested

Does the feeling of young and old come through in the image.

Technical Details

ISO 100 f/13 1/25 sec 157 mm

Canon R7 with RF 24-240 lens

Yes it does

Nice vision and Narrative

Huw

Steve, this is a great image to represent something that could be easily over looked. I’m glad you saw it and captured the image. What are the" little guys" odds. I like the side light on the main tree and the little guy.
Very nice
Alice Wilson

Composition on this image is pretty interesting and it works. I like the formatting. Colors work really well. The light is very effective.

Steve, the scrawny young pine against the much older tree trunk tells a fine story. I also like how many twists there are in the youngster’s “trunk” and that there are no side branches, yet. I do think that a bit of burning-in of the needles would let the greens show better.

I like this image. It’s so simple and direct. It seems to break the rules of composition and yet it doesn’t.

Steve: What @Igor_Doncov said. I especially like the light and the shadow details. On a completely administrative note, it’s usually not a good idea to post full size images. Site recommendation is for images 2000 pixels on the long side and <3MB in size. Posting full size images often triggers automatic site downsizing with a subsequent loss of quality. It also looks like you’ve been away for a while so welcome back and thanks for a compelling image.>=))>

Hi Huw, Alice,David, Mark, Igor and Bill. Thanks so much for you kind comments. I think while hiking thru the forest and seeing the light filter thru to the sapling looked interesting. Thanks for stopping and viewing.