Viewing post #1006709 by William

Asa, I recognize your photo from the contest and while it was one of my favorites I remember my thoughts viewing this was that the depth of field wasn't enough. It seems to me(please correct me if I'm wrong) that your goal was a wide representation of this beautiful scene, but still wanting some special attention on the crocuses. I like the idea here, but the selective focus is pulling my eyes also towards the in focus greenery on the right. This makes me as a viewer a bit confused about what the image is about: Crocus or greenery? I think that had more of the foreground crocuses been in focus, this could have been avoided.

Other than that, the brown leaf on the left could have been removed prior to shooting and perhaps also a tiny, tiny crop on the right to remove the purple out of focus flower on the right edge would work well for my tastes, as I like to simplify a scene as much as possible.

I like the intimacy the conifer on the left lends the scene, almost as it protects the crocuses and the light is also really good. Few suggestions aside, this basically is a very nice photo and it gets a from me.