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Honours.
I feel calmed by this image. It is soft and dreamlike, but don’t be fooled. I think there has been some serious thought put into the construction of this image. Often the horizon through the centre is frowned upon, and on the line of thirds is preferred, but here, it works because the image is so well balanced. The dark hills on each side balance each other. The darker foreground repeating and reflecting the shape of the light sky works well. Imagine a crop from the bottom, to remove the dark foreground area, a very different image, and not as successful as this is. Great work, by a photographer who knows the rules and when to break them.