The darkness and the "overprocessing" of the flowers and the grass are deliberate in this image. If you recall, The Secret Garden begins with tragedy. The little girl lost her parents in an epidemic. She is angry. The distant relative she comes to live with has lost his wife and his son is an invalid. He is angry and despondent as well. The garden is not thriving, but it IS magic. It will respond to caring hands, but it has been walled off, closed up until someone finds it. My life the past year has been similar. I have experienced great loss as well as critical illness. I am dealing with facing another loss of an important member of my family in the very near future and I am powerless to prevent it. My garden has withered. The brightness in the image is the magic shouting out for attention. If it is disturbing to you, so be it. There must be beauty enough in your life that you don't need the reminder. Good for you.
Thank you for all the nice comments. I really appreciate that more folks than I realized got what I was trying to do. This path really did look this way if viewed through tears...
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This does have the sense of a discovered, secret garden, the passage through a green tunnel into light. Beyond that, it's not doing a whole lot for me, I don't feel especially engaged.
I like the vibrant colors! I haven't read the book, but you do evoke a children's book with these colors. You also have a good, energetic composition, with swooping darkness on the right, and a strong sense of "passage" to a better place. 7
6...this hints at the story quite nicely. the greens down the path appear to be overexposed and have turned into this blobby looking mass with little to no texture or information. It's a difficult exposure to say the least.
Fits the title, looks secret. I would have tired a soft focus (a layer of blur ). The highlights are a bit blown on the rock and that is a bit distracting. So i find the green at the end of the path. I would also have tried to get rid of the leaves on the top left.
Definitely looks like a path to the secret garden. I like the point of view from the dark pathway looking in to the sunny exit. The harshly lit stone in the middle is a tiny distraction. 6
I particularly do not like the image myself. The colors seem over processed and there are weird tendril looking shapes all in the photo. The image is too dark and could have used better lighting or a longer exposure. The idea is good, but the execution is lacking.
Murky and lurky scene. Creates the right atmosphere but the scene at the end of the tunnel is a little bit of a let down. To your credit, the right leaf wall is wonderful to explore and the blueish path is good. 5.
Good composition with the nice pathway leading to the secret garden! A little heavy handed with the processing though, as the green in the center of the frame seems over-saturated and blown out with no detail?
Your picture is acidic and processed to the rim. The wonderful morning glories in the foreground got killed by the saturation and the green became fluorescent. too bad because the place seems quite beautiful
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