Bridge and Flower

These two were shot at the Magnolia Plantation near Charleston, SC. Kodak Easy Share (really wish I had my new rebel then)

I like the bridge one better...I guess I can feel a lack of attitude from the flower.
The bridge one is neat, tho I might suggest to trim or better...blur the tree on the left to enhance the main subject in the composition. The reflection is great. If you had a chance shoot it from a different angle...may be a more frontal approach will look better.

The bridge is the better of the two for me but I have a few issues with it.

It seems a little to tight and also and at to acute an angle making the trees crowd in on the bridge. If you can re-shoot try opening up the angle.

The reflection is gorgeous

The flower on the other hand needs to be a lot closer or put more in context, but not so crowded by the reflections of the trees.

Just on a point of etiquette post just one photo at a time so that we can concentrate on the one photo.

Roger R.

The bridge shot has potential, but maybe shooting a bit more from the right to open up the angle a bit would help. You have a great idea, just tweak it a bit.

Thanks for all the advice, and the etiquette :) I didn't see that request until after I had posted the shots. I've attached another shot of the bridge that is a bit wider; if I do get back to South Carolina i will most definitely be re-shooting this area.

Blue, how would I go about blurring the tree? I'm new at this and have not done any playing around with photo software or manipulation of pictures

The second bridge pic shows much better the length of the bridge itself do to angle of the pic which I do prefer.

Regarding the blurring dont know what PP software do you have....if you have PS (photoshop) what I do is either a surface blur or a Gaussian blur to the whole image and the with the eraser tool erase the areas you want to see without blur, in this case the bridge and background.