Thames Street Parkby
brianedenComment by Natasha: Critique Club
Composition-Content
This is a lovely winter scene, the way that the canopy of trees leads you into the picture is great. The angle that this has been shot from is good, with foreground, middle and background interest. I think that cropping out the grey building would have enhanced the composition a lot, and provided better balance in colours and also given more impact to the red building. Cropping until the edge of the second tree on the left would have been good, IMO.
Background
The background (minus the grey building!) really sets of this picture, with the path of trees naturally leading you into thebackground, nice and easy!
Technical
Focus seems a tiny bit aoft on the bench in the foreground, I wonder if deeper DOF would have worked here. I think that you have done a pretty good job of capturing the true colour of snow, someone mentioned that it looked a little pink. To get snow pure white, you should do exposure bracketing, if your camera has it! +2EV for sunlit snow and +1.5EV for overcast snow, plus or minus to achieve the correct results. I tried this recently and was quite happy with the results.
My Opinion
I think that this is a very pleasing picture, a lovely quiet view of city life. I think that probably some of the voters didn't see this as a strict landscape, perhaps costing you a few votes. But, Congrats on a lovely picture and Good Luck in the next challenge.
