The trees near Greenough, South of Geraldton WA, are continually buffeted by winds from one direction. This causes them to grow leaning over.
Converted from raw, cropped, levels, selective colour layers for greens, blues and whites, merged visible layers, noise ninja, resized, usm run twice, cloned out dark patches on edges of tree, added text, merged visible, resized to final size, added border using canvas size, saved for web.
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I agree with routerguy's suggestions: good idea and text overall, and lower angle and higher contrast would've improved this. I'd also suggest trying it in B&W.
This shot had all the elements of a high scoring motivational poster, but a few things held it back.
The image itself is great and well composed. It almost screams 'slap some text on me and let's make a poster!'. It really needs increased contrast to get the tree to pop out of the rest of the scene. Also shooting this from a lower point of view so that the tree itself would be framed entirely by sky rather than by the horizon split would also give it more weight.
The phrase you chose works very well with the imagery. The layout of the text and the font used are also nice.
I think people had a fairly concrete notion of what these posters should look like as far as font and overall graphical design, and this poster is very different from that standard. That is probably the largest reason this didn't score higher.
Nonetheless, a very creative and well designed poster. If you choose to follow the herd-think next time this challenge pops, you will no doubt be a top contender.
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