Greetings from the Critique Club!
I like this photo. Your nephew is very cute and doing the kind of thing that people like to see, which is acting uninhibited.
The overexposed bg highlights him well, and there is a lot of good greyscale going on. However, as you may have seem from the front page, photos featuring landscapes, urbanscapes, mountains, buildings etc are all what did well here. It's more a matter of the wrong challenge for this image than it being a poor image. The HDR effect is very strong in the details of his jersey's letters, for example, and gives a slightly surreal aspect to his face - where shadows would normally fall, there are light areas, which I think confuses the eye as it's looking for that shadow. Especially in a human face! HDR really does seem most at home in mountains, street scenes etc. I got soundly kicked in this challenge too, so don't feel too bad :-)
So, good work keeping the photo simple and not too busy.
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