At first glance of this photo, I don't really see any emotion here. I then checked the title, and Tranquility is definitely not a emotion. A mood? I'll buy that, but the challenge is to capture an emotion.
The photo is very cool, and for that ill give it a 5. It would score higher, but its not on topic.
I'm looking at this challenge as being one that is trying to get a photographer to show a mood *from* his subject, not trying to evoke a mood *for* the subject from the viewer. You've set out to do the latter here. The scene may be tranquil for someone, but I don't seen anyone actually *being* tranquil here.
Lovely shot of a a lovely location but I can´t help if it hadn´t seemed even more tranquil if you would have taken a couple of steps forward and skipped that fence. Anyway, good colours and I like the tonal range in this shot.
Although I don’t say this is a bad picture I have scored this low.
Low in my book is not extremely low, but I guess there will be other people thinking the same way I do who don’t leave a comment.
Don’t take this the wrong way, this is my own opinion, and I am trying to let you understand what some voters may think.
In my opinion this does not meet the challenge, the description of the challenge: Take a picture that captures an emotion.
I looked hard, but I don’t see an emotion. This could be my fault, but that’s the reason why I voted lower as I would normaly do.
I like this, tranquill for sure. For me, I do not see the expression of it though, just a feeling of it. It seems to have some jaggies on the rail(lower middle left) due to over sharpening plus slight halo. 8
I can almost hear the frogs croaking now! I love your photo, but it seems a tad too green for me. I enjoy the composition of the fence leading into the image.