Tap at Newtown

Either the negative was underexposed or the print has been overexposed but somewhere along the line you ended up with a print that IMHO is too dark, with contrast and and texture lost in both the foliage and the wood supporting the tap. There appears to be such a large range between the sky and everything else that I'd guess you based the exposure on the wood/foliage, which overexposed the sky, and then to get any sky information in the print you had to overexpose the print. Exposing for the foliage/tap and then using minus 1 or 2 development might have helped if that is in fact what occurred. But without seeing the negative it's hard to know exactly what happened.

My extreme apologies. I thought I was in the critique gallery.

That's OK!! I don't mind a bit of criticism.

I'm not totally happy with this myself as I don't think there is enough contrast between the post/pipe and the foliage behind. Also the sky was very bland that day.

I don't think the scan does it any favours either. The exposure f11 1/125 is the same as my previous gate image f16 1/60 and these two were taken within minutes of each other in the same light so I don't think the exposure or processing of the film is very far out.

I will have to go back and have another try.

Steve.