Winter dressing...

Nice overall look indeed. Great and loads of detail which would make a great huge print. I don't like the close trunk on the right though. It's too bold and its interaction with the frame is rather distracting for me.

Ellen,

I love everything about this, the trees, the light the color.

- Dan

This is definately a strong composition! The ice-laden branches form a great backdrop for the bold trunks. A tiny bit more room for the rightmost trunk would be nice, but maybe not possible... not a big nit either. I like it Ellen!

I really like this!
The combination of great subtle color tone with impeccable composition makes a striking image
My only composition nit is the right most birch curve intersecting the right frame. if you showed the complete trunk there to compliment the far left trunk it would be perfect in MHO. Every viewer can learn from this image.

I find the right trunk a little too dominant but a very very minor nit in a beautifully striking and creative composition. Great job on the exposure too..

What Dan said: I love everything about this! Excellent!

Really does, this is beautiful and haunting.

Really pretty Ellen, love everything about it. Beautifully done.

John

the light is incredible but i really love the shapes and forms of the trees and branches. great shot!

Spectacular Ellen. A beautiful comp. This turned out really nice. My only nit (slight) is that I wish the trunk on the right was totally included in the scene.

Oh wow, this is incredible! I love it. The light and intricate detail is astounding!

I love this image, it has a wonderful mysterious feeling to it. Fantastic capture

I think this is quite a unique image. I really like the overall dark feel to it - pretty stirring. Nice find and capture!

Very powerful graphic statement here, and stylistically masterful. The thumb gives little hint of the nature of this great image. I agree with others regarding the cropped R trunk, however.

Hi Ellen,LOVE this photo !!!!!,very well composed, light and color tones are sublime

This is excellent. Tones, texture, and colors are very nice.

Ellen, this is a great capture. Would make a lovely large print! Two very minor points for me - as Bill stated, far right trunk not cut off and the light area on the left is pulling my eye somewhat! I'd love to have this in my portfolio!

like this a lot ; the pink sky , the heavy tree trunks and the fine branches make an interesting photo.

Just beautiful. Such a hard subject handled very well. I really enjoy it!

Wow! This sure got my attention! Just fantastic. I love the light and the depth. The icy trees evoke all kinds of emtoions. Nice work!

Lori

Excellent composition Ellen. Verynice.

Love the image. Great composition and detail.

Best,

Jose

Wicked, cool!!!

This is just stunning, Elen! Really excellent work here!

Tremendous capture! The haunting shape and tones of the birch trunks (and the canopy) is great, but the light/shadow interplay is, if anything, even better.

This is really a beautiful, if somewhat eerie scene. I love it! Excellent work, Ellen.

Ellen,

This, is incredibly beautiful. The light, the delicate frost-laden branches and how they fill in all the gaps between the trees is wonderful. I wouldn't change anything - this deserves to be hanging on a wall.... in a gallery. I love this image.

Lon

Really gorgeous. Nothing to suggest here this is superb.

Very beautiful! So delicate, like from a movie or something... Iove it!

Striking image, especially for this sort of subject matter. I agree about the composition, and I think the warm light filtering through the BG adds an interesting element of depth to this.

Ellen,

I love this. It has a wondorous feel to it. I just wish you had not let the tree on the right to touch the edge of the frame.

Ellen, I think this is just incredible. Having said that, I'd like to pose an idea. I think the image would take on a lovely and more delicate look with the big tree on the right cropped out entirely. So beautiful, really, I love the light you captured and the trees are just delightful. Very good eye to pick this comp out of all of what you saw.

Beautiful work, what a great atmosphere. Very otherworldly. I love photography which transforms an ordinary location into something incredible.

What life this image has! Sensational Ellen.

Beautiful and almost eerie, Congrats on the EP

Ellen: Big congrats on the EP. Great to see a Flora shot getting more kudos This is indeed superb. Marvelously well seen and captured.>=))>

The feeling is other-worldly, Halloween, eerie, and at the same time enchantingly alluring. I best like the background light pulling the viewing into the scene. Congrats.

Grats on the EP, this is excellent! I bet this would look great as a large print.

Congrats Ellen. Well deserved.

Wonderful image,a nd a big congrats on the EP this week.

Thanks for all your nice comments, you're too kind! I didn't think this image would have such an impact! It is great to have an EP in this forum!

Congratulations on the EP. Remarkable and unique imagery.

Congrats on the EP Ellen - well deserved!

Perfect in every way.

Ellen,

very nice, mystical, moody, fine composition, just great

Stunning work Ellen. What an artistic seeing here !!

Ellen,

I missed this earlier in the year, but wow is this an amazing photograph. Congrats on your well deserved annual editors pick!

Beautiful image and a well deserved award. Congratulations.

A stunning image and a well deserved honor! Congratulations Ellen.

Well, I must've been out for a few days when you posted this, Ellen. Didn't remember seeing it until the EPAs came out. Congrats on your first place finish. Well deserved. Gorgeous image.

Hi Ellen,

I too seem to have missed this photo when it was originally posted. What a beauty! Congratuations on winning the EPA.

Certainly a winner in my book! Congratulations, Ellen!

I too missed it on the first go around, and I'm glad it was a 2008 winner so I could see it. Well done!!

Congratulations Ellen. Superb.

Pat

Ellen - gefeliciteerd! Awesome shot, I can still vividly remember that magical day in December.