Autumn Rushby
PelleComment by macrothing:
Critique Club Critique
First Impressions
Difficult Challenge, nice abstract but the sun/light top left dominates a little too much.
Photograph Information, Technicals & Composition Review
You mention the unwanted curved effect, I quite like that (if you're talking about the 'waves'). For me, as mentioned above, the overexposed sky is a fraction too dominant and takes my attention away from the nice flows and colors. Perhaps cropping it out, but as always, your call.
Comments, Score & Placement Review
12th place is very good. Score of 6.04 doesn't seem to match that, but a difficult Challenge with not many entries.
Average of 7.0 from your commenters - all of which seemed to really like the beauty in it. You received one comment with a suggestion about cropping out the top part, so I am not the only one to see/think that.
Summary
The overall visual balance of the movement/lines/color perhaps is a little thrown out by the tree on the left, so I wonder about a variation in cropping/composition - but your call. My favorite part of the image is the two trees/trunks in the center and the colors and movement surrounding them.