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Key to heaven

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:star::star::star-half::star-empty::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star-half::star-empty::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star-half::star-empty::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star-half::star-empty::star-empty: Impact

The skeleton key is quite common. I like the ambiguous use of it here - I can't quite tell if the key is intimacy or power, which makes this one of the more original photos I've seen using a key.

The color palette is interesting. I get the overall cold feeling of the photo, with the reds and yellows beginning to approach warm tones. Warm colors in the primary triad were often used in reference to divinity in Renaissance art. This lends to the ambiguous nature of the key, which is quite a good little feat you pulled off here. However, this is where I feel you may have short-changed yourself in terms of composition.

The key hanging off the branch, along with the branch, could have been used to frame the warm colors. The eye would have been drawn first to the warm colors, but the cold key would have helped pull it away while the horizontal and vertical elements of the flora would have given the viewer a natural path around the frame. I understand that people will say "never in the center," but centering can be done if the elements around the center are interesting and can draw the eye out without having to force the issue.

All in all, good work in terms of color processing and concept. I recommend you experiment a little more on composition to maximize the impact of the concept.