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As reflected by my score, the originality buggers me allot. How is this image original, or your own, from what another person would choose to capture if they were there? The other critique is a good one, however how is this artistic? I just don’t seem much personal artistic expression. (I don't mean to be harsh.) To me this just says that you liked the reflection and captured what you saw. It feels rather 2d. Personally I want to see at least 3 subjects, I see only two: fall, and reflection of the lake. Or if not that, at least 3 layers, I see only 2 1/2, the mountain, the edge of the lake, the lake.
There are too may horizontal and vertical lines, some angles I think would really help make it more exciting.
Also consider this, where do your eyes want to go, for me they tried to go up the mountain in the back, but were stopped. Then they tried to go into the edge of the forest by the edge of the lake on the right near the rock or tree in the lake. However everything is too small to appreciate what potential seems to be there.
It is a good picture that I would be proud to have.
I think other mediums are easier than photography in this regard. (Of course I say this as someone who has never painted anything more artistic than a wall or drawn anything more complicated than the short straw.) Art tells a story, or even better, prompts viewers to tell their own stories to themselves. Other mediums need a story in the creation process so there is already a strong starting point.
This is that rarest of photographs that starts the viewer down a path into a daydream. The daydream doesn't have to be one of slaying dragons and rescuing princesses. Sometimes, as in this case, for at least one viewer, a daydream can be resting against a comfortable tree sipping at a flask of good scotch and reading literature that doesn't take itself too seriously.
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