Tried to get an image that portrays calmness and relaxation... used a low aperture value, blurring the background to give a kind of daydreaming feeling to the photograph. Post-editing was simply to resize the image for the challenge.
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I like your composition but photo seems bit pale...there is not much colors, also the tree doesnt catch lot of interest. Maybe I would chose as main object the grass on pond with water and reflecrion of sky.
The contrast between the tree and the background is nice, but my eyes are trying to find more detail in the OOF bakground. This seems to make the pic, IMHO, a bit unbalanced.
I cannot clearly find the subject, here. To me it is bench, but it is too out of focus to be pleasant.
It could also be the tree, but then the backgruond is quite ugly and I cannot understand how it meet the challenge