"Sepia" is also one of those colours that's hard to define. It's like saying 'red' (dark red - light red - cherry red - firetruck red).

The tone in this image is not the tone of sepia that i like or print. I prefer a much darker and browner sepia similar to what I used to get when i actually toned prints sepia.That actual tone varied with the type of paper, and length of bleaching time , but it was always browner and richer. My preferred tone of sepia is similar to this sepia from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepia_(color)

Also sepia doesn't always work well with every image but in my opinion it does work with this image. I just think it would look nicer if the sepia was darker and browner. My critique on this image has nothing to do with the sepia.

I like this image and I like the composition here. The image needs a serious contrast boost globally and especially in all the foliage. It's not the sepia that is stopping this image from 'rocking', it's the contrast

It seems obvious that sepia is simply not to your taste, that's cool but it seems personal. What did sepia ever do to you?