Winter Dawn in Banff

stunning sky and reflection. I kinda wish the mountain was a darker silhouette or gave me a little more detail, but that's just me. like the way the fallen tree leads into the scene.

Nice lighting and reflections. The downed snow-covered tree is a plus as it takes the eye to the the mountain.

Hi Christopher. i have to say you caught very nice lighting and mood here. Beautiful. Having said that I remember back when I was really learning a ton about composition (going to graphic design school helped a lot, also reading all the landscape books known to mankind). I see what you are trying to do here with a leading line, and thirds, and a play of lines, and foreground interest. A lot of my earlier work looked very similar. At least for me it was a big step further! What I would suggest is to try to keep your foregrounds pretty clean (not too cluttered). Finding the very best foregrounds is a very difficult task (and art form). I would say often less is more. Also, if you do have a leading line that intersects straight into the reflection of your most important subject matter (the mountain) probably ditch it. Might be better to have nothing but a clean foreground in comparison. In a word, clean and non complicated but if you can find leading lines that is great as long as they don't get to cluttery or distracting. I hope this is in some way helpful.

Having said that I still like the image a lot.

Beautiful sky and color. Nice reflection too, but I do agree with what Mark was saying about the downed tree intruding into the reflection.

Wonderful light and color. Dark values seem a bit too dark though, sort of inky. Not sure if there's any detail in them, but might be worth trying to recover it if it's there.

Nice color, light and reflection