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I would tend to agree, to be honest, but this has always been one of my most popular photos, and does well on Getty, which does always surprise me a bit. As usual with my photos, things I like usually end up not being popular and things I'm not crazy about end up being mega-popular. It has always confused me. Then again, I see other artists say similar things so I suppose it's a common situation. But at any rate, a lot of the softness was caused by the lens I was using, and the fact that I shot this before the light hit (you can see the light just starting to hit in the upper right corner) so I had to brighten the entire thing in software and that lost me a lot of clarity.

Ummm...which version of my comment are you replying to?

first one :)