Please Be Brutally Honest With Me

all of the images within here are excellent, they look like deserved winners

IMO you played this wrong, you tried to work 3 things into the photo but in doing so created other problems, to me the image was the bridge - the tree - the framing and the delicacy of the background.

B/se you wrestled with the background being reflected into the pool you just created confusion as to where one should look.. You can fix it a bit by cropping, but it would be better shot lower.

The right border is best just to the right of the tree, shoot a bit lower to capture more of the gable of the roof,use that foliage to frame the top of your shot, likewise use the track to guide the eye in

The eye should follow along the track, the tree, into the bridge,
use light and the quality of the light not stuff, and everything else is sauce

as they say, better luck next time

good thing to do that we should do more of

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Riley
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