Artisitc Merits

The reflections are well done and often ignored in lake portrayals.

{{ Cheers Halfy, thats kinder than I'd be to it! Only bit I sort of like, well don't mind as much as the rest of it, is the little path to the left of the water, and I dont know why I like it but I do, possibly reminds me of actual paths around here along river banks. }}

I see it as a rainy day and the trees are reflected in the puddles. You get that kind of icy cold steel light with rain and thats what I see

Since you insist on kvetching about your own work, I should point out on a second look that the reflections from the distant trees are stronger than those in the near trees. I think running a piece of rubber across the far tree reflections might balance things out if smudging can be avoided. Other than that I don't know what you have been complaining about.

{{ I see no reason why you would think my opinion of own work would be exempt from the extruciating levels of crabbit I bear towards almost everything. It is if anything more crabbitly critical of my own stuff than of other folks, but only because it rightly deserves it It's the Scottish way, the only thing you get from patting yourself on the back is a bad shoulder, but with a simple and swift backwards flick of the foot, you can give yourself a kick up the arse }}

{{ This weeks doodle was a bit ambitious, and I was seriously out of time so the foreground is, suggestive lets call it, rather than as intended.}}

That one's a captivating subject. though yeah, it seems you have foreground and background switched.

I love it

{{ Not entirely sure I follow Halfy about them being switched, I meant just I didnt have time to actually do the foreground, so its more suggested. The plan was to have a large tree either side, or parts of them that would have given it a foreground and created a bit of depth by making the main picture seem as if seen through a doorway between the trees either side. }}