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  This is a picture that was used in an article about cotton production I saw essentially.  For that purpose it is quite a nice image.  I like the nice graduated blue background.  If it had had clouds they would have conflicted with the subject, the three cotton balls.  The foreground subject is sharp with a nice out of focus background that sets the environment, the cotton field, without distracting from the primary subject.  

However there are a couple of issues.  First is the cleanup of the subject.  The photographer should have removed any clutter from the surface of the subject such as the leaves sticking to the cotton balls and small spider webs or perhaps they are cotton strands at the top of the pod.  Another thing to watch out for is the sloping horizon.  Generally you want the horizon to me straight unless the photo artist intends to deliberately add tension to the photograph. 

These issues can be corrected with a little judicious cropping and cloning in the computer. (See attached cropped photo)  However it is always best to address these at the time the picture is being taken.  This helps to develop an eye for detail. The last point I would like to make is that the overall subject and image are excellent for what they were intended, an article on cotton.  But as with all flower photos intended for display on a wall or in a gallery the photographer needs to show us the subject in a new and interpretive way.  The photographer needs to make the subject his / her own and make us see it in an unexpected way.  One method of doing this would be to crop down to interesting details within the original subject. (See attached cropped photo)

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MARKED UP    CROPPED   TIGHT DETAIL     

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