The garden wall

[vyeko]

I think that is worth to go to the perfection.Not only flare but blown out cloud on top too. Image which I like it a lot is so good that is worth extra work.Amazing light.Bravo!!!

[Marko]

Although I find the image strong compositionally, for me the 2 parts of the image don't blend as well as they could.
The light and background parts of the image are very captivating. The tree at the left and the line of the wall make for a fabulous "triangle" that leads to your boy and this makes the composition quite interesting.
However, when we "get" to your boy, it looks as though he is simply looking into the dirt. Given the luminous almost fairytale quality of the overall image, conceptually I think the image would have been much stronger as a whole, had the boy been "looking into the light" or looking at the luminous parts of the image. Hope that makes sense and it's just my 2 cents....

[Andrew]

Looking into Alice's Wonderland?? Get rid of the flare and it would be a neat one to frame for his wall.

JAS, check out the zoo and devonian gardens for certain. Also the Calgary Parks website, Calgary Horticultural website... I'm sure you'll find lots tucked away in places you haven't seen yet. Lower elevations like Red Deer and Edmonton should have even more. Spring is coming so the foothills and mountain meadows are about to explode.