Greetings from the Critique Club!
Aha, I guessed this was one of yours before I saw your name at the bottom, Marcel :-)
I gave this shot a 6 during voting. Here's why. I love the red maple leaf, it's nice and sharp, and oh so very, very safe. Centred composition, lots of extra twigs etc in the bg. Lighting behind is a little bland so it's not helping by backlighting the leaf which would help set it on fire and give it that nice glow. A tighter crop may have helped as would some cloning to get out distracting twigs behind the leaf.
Fall being what it is - very variable weather and all those brilliant colours going to waste - it doesn't hurt to pick up a fallen leaf and position it to advantage and then shoot it. But if this is all you had to work with, once again, contrast and saturation are your friends in post. That and maybe a different crop, or even try something like rotating the image and see if it brings new life to the image. I did that once in a Perspective challenge and got a blue ribbon, so it works at times! :-)
If it makes you feel any better, every year on DPC there is a Fall Foliage challenge and every year I shoot masses of pics of glowing golden sugar maple leaves, and rarely enter any of them, cause although they are pretty - staged or not - it's extremely difficult to come up with a fall foliage shot that hasn't already been done many times before. So to try and outdo them is VERY tough; if you can indeed come up with a new way to shoot leaves, please tell me!
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