Pretty is not the diminutive of beautiful. It's a difficult, if not actually impossible, distinction to give voice to, but here I'm trying to explain a gut reaction. Pretty is delight, happiness and sunshine. Beautiful is glory, impressiveness, emotional depth and, okay, delight as well. Other stuff too. You know it when you feel it. This image is so uplifting. The leaves sparkle, the background elegantly sets them off, and as the leaves approach the top they mass into abundance. It's a garland to spring, to joy and promise. Very pretty.
Not my cup of tea and yet, and yet ... it's wonderful, and just goes to show that I know nothing. Or what I think I know is nothing, and what I don't know is something! Confused?
It's a lovely, deeply satisfying photograph. Absolutely perfect composition, so elegantly judged that it's quite unimpeachable on that score. The colours are glorious. And the contrast (I mean the figurative contrast, not the photographic one) between the delicate spray of the leaves and the bluntness of the streaked wall is ... no other or lesser word will do ... beautiful. I also like very much the suggestion of a distant skyline beyond the wall: it looks like a ruined or ravaged place over there, at least in my imagination, and that gives context to the foreground wall. Interesting (and humbling) photograph that I admire very much. Thank you.
a good example of photo-as-object and a sophisticated sort of eye candy, with complementary colors... and even a signature on the lower right, like a Japanese print.
Limited in its construction - that's a good thing - it feels tight and deliberately constrained, like I can feel your photographic influence on the scene. I like that your choices are so apparent.
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