Hello and greetings from the Critique Club-
The first thing that strikes me about your photo is that it seems a bit washed out. A lot of the different tones seem a bit flat, which is likely due in part to the focus, but seems more pronounced than it should be given the scene. Beyond that, I can̢۪t help but agree with Michelle about the relation to the challenge. I feel like the misplaced focus is simply added into a photo, and I̢۪m left wondering why. Or perhaps how it benefits things?
An alternate way of looking at this, though, is what would have made this scene more fitting the challenge?
Did you consider maybe getting closer down to the ground, opening up your aperture a bit more (maybe F/6.3 or 7.1ish to decrease the depth of field a bit more, and focusing up very close at the grass? This would make the horses seem bigger, and more looming, as well. Plus, the foreground (grass) does have a connection to the horses as well, and it̢۪s also something that happens to the best of us at times (accidental focus on something that slightly is obstructing out view.
Also keep in mind that with an aperture like f/9, you̢۪re going to have very deep depth of field in general, and also that these horses will be near the infinity focus of your lens, if they aren̢۪t actually at infinity, so they will appear to be in the same degree of focus as any object from infinity to just before what is considered infinity on your lens, so things will all look almost the same.
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