Sakura at Odawara Castle

[Pao Dolina]

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8754/17233216615_5d50005821_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/sfQJUp)Odawara Castle Cherry Blossoms (https://flic.kr/p/sfQJUp) by alabang (https://www.flickr.com/people/91429492@N00/), on Flickr

EXIF: f/5.6 40mm 1/160 ISO 160 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alabang/17233216615/meta)

Location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odawara_Castle in Japan

[Ron Conlon]

I like the color, the profusion of colors, and the subtle diagonal from lower left to upper right. It falls between a composition with a clear point or points of interest and a flatter composition where points of interest fill the frame.

[Jonathan Ashton]

The fairly wide aperture is essential to the image, I like the colours. Whilst I do not think the blossom is overexposed I would consider lowering the brightness of some of the brighter blooms.

[Anita Bower]

Lovely image. I like how the central area of flowers is in focus, with the rest slightly blurred.

[Steve Maxson]

Quite an impressive mass of flowers! I like the sharpness of the flowers in the center of the image and how they are nicely separated from those in the background. I think the image would be stronger if the OOF clump in the LL foreground could have also been sharp (probably would have required a different camera positioning and maybe a different f/stop) as I find that blurred group of flowers a bit distracting. :S3: