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This is our first photo entry form a photographer in Sweden.

Silhouettes can be tricky; sometimes we want a small amount of detail but more frequently not.  They are often accomplished by metering on the sky and thus over exposing the image so that a subject in the foreground is way under exposed and left little or no detail.  For this to work the silhouette must be a strong and most often recognizable.

The image submitted here is both strong and easily recognizable.  In this case I don’t think we want any detail in the silhouette.  There is a beautiful tone graduation of the sky with just enough cloud formation to make it interesting.  And the clouds are near the horizon thus not interfering with the main subject.  The horizon is extremely low taking up only about one fifth of the vertical space; this low horizon emphasizes the importance of the tree.  The outstanding feature of this photograph and what I feel takes it out of the ordinary are the church spires on the horizon.

If I have anything to suggest to the photographer is that he eliminate the item in the lower left hand corner that has some light reflecting off it.

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