Technical elements The image is crisp and nicely saturated in colour. In general I really like the lighting - the darker background mushrooms are perfect, the lighting on the head of the main mushroom is great - my only negative is the overlit stalk of the main mushroom. Towards the base is becomes overexposed and loses its texture.
Composition I like the composition - have a couple of background mushrooms disappearing out of frame works fine. The "three" baby mushroom are tucked a bit too far into the corner for my liking, particularly the one disappearing out of the bottom of frame since it's a key element of the image. The black background isolates the subject, but works well with the creative lighting chosen.
Border / Title You haven't used any border - which is a fine decision for this image. With the black background there is no need for an additional border.
At first I had the feeling that you had used the title to force the image into fitting the challenge, but when I think about it more the odds of finding three "baby" mushrooms attached to one large one are pretty slim.
Personal / Emotional qualities The image doesn't evoke a lot of emotion in me - it's almost humourous in a way... Choosing a mushroom as the subject of the "Mother" challenge. It is a very nice artist style shot though, and I don't have any issue when they don't evoke emotion - they still look great!
Summary Well done on this shot. I noticed it didn't score as well as some of your other shots, and it's perhaps not quite as good as your DiscoMushroom11 shot, but it's still quite nice on it's own.
c'est bon i like the photo. others wont see anything mother-related because theres no babies and no kissing and no hand holding or patting on the head, but i think that there is more to those nice gestures that can be attributed to motherhood, which we can see done here where the mini shroomies are emerging from the base of the big shroom, its like mothers providing a living space, providing shelter, security and somewhere to hold onto, like they are attached to the big shroom.
mothers are liek a package deal and theyre not only pats on the head. theres alot mroe to it than that.
so 10 on 10 for originality and creativity though i must speak honestly and i say im not the biggest fan of the light setup here.
Hmmm, we all know mushrooms are just the fruit of the real mama below ground. DNMC...haha, just kidding. Nicely lit with a nice dark background. I'm bumping this to a 6.
At first, I thought this doesn't fit the challenge, but I was wrong, as it is a magicial image, with the three baby mushrooms growing from the base of the Mother Mushroom. So well done......
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