You're onto something with that feeling.
The grass is so directional that it almost gives a brush-stroke feeling to the everything outside the focal plane. There's a whole lot of subtle texture here, and directional texture at that, this feels like an impressionist garden painting.
There's not a lot of story to tell in this photo (IMO) but the
texture and
feeling is strong, which is awesome.
/u/PrachtigePjotr, sorry for the unprompted advice here, but I looked through your history. You shoot
very technically correct shots. Good exposure, focus,
composition. You also have a very good eye for
light play, and
interesting symmetry. Those are
awesome skills to have, and to hone. Now
in my personal opinion, the layer some of these shots are missing is telling a story. Your photo of the
men in Iran is
. Because it tells a great story. There is so much interest here. Human subjects, of course, do tons for telling a story. The viewer wonders "who are they? what are they doing in this moment, what are they about to do?" etc. Most of your shots seem to be landscape, so I'm not going to tell you to throw a human standing in front of your lens for everything. If you can find interest and a deeper story
after the symmetry and shadow play (e.g. is there something interesting
in the shadows? that we can barely make out? Why is it there? Why did the photographer mask it from us?) then you've really stepped it up. I say all this because you've got talent, and I would
love to see you grow it more. And then I'm buying that and putting it on my walls.
I struggle with the same story element. There was an interesting
youtube video from Trago with some moderately blunt critique of photos (from a cinematographer's perspective). That probably explained it best to me.