5 stars Jack! This is one amazing image! The outstretched branches across the path is just amazing. In a word: WOW!

Very beautiful photograph

this is really splendid. Great contrasts and composition. Such a striking image!

Great composition. Like so many arms reaching out.

But so beautiful though awesome contrast

These high contrasts make my day - i cherrish them and yours are marvelous (and thanks for the quote too !)

Cheating works when the photo is excellent. Great job, Jack.

another great and dramatic shot. good processing and framing

An excellent black and white with good tonal depth. The branches are really striking.

Wow!! Brilliant shot...the high key is absolutely phenomenal. Great work on the composition :)

The post processing really brings out the structure and texture of the branches, love it! It reminds me of an etching (I hope thats the name I'm trying to find;) )

I like the composition :) And the high contrast - delicious.

********************* fabuleux , fabuleux !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cette photo est extraordinaire .......................... bravo !

Excellent!!! Une superbe composition, bravo!!!!

simply superb.... I love it!

Nice shot. Good contrast and processing

des contrastes très forts et la neige si blanche.. on dirait presque un dessin à la plume.. quel traitement, John, bravo, c'est du beau travail.

Joli traitement

I love the composition with beautiful branches above the path, the strong contrasts like a drawing. an excellent work Jack !

very nice John, very nice

the branches seem heavy with snow a really romantic pic

The trees display their roots! Tired of winter! c'est superbe!

What a magnifiscent crop ! Clever indeed ! Utterly poetic and aesthetic as well... snow, white is everywhere, covering each inch of land and branch, even the sky is white... I can ear the silence of the snow... winter is really a wonderful season.

I'll overlook the cheating when the image is this beautiful and striking, Jack ha ha

A wonderful composition! Just beautiful.

Such dramatic contrast. Yet such balance. Well executed. Great shot.

wow,this is great shot...amazing and wonderful view !!!
i love snow,this shot is really lovely and dreamy [for me ;)]
excellent capture and framing ...

No cheating to me. I haven't seen snow all winter. This is so beautiful.

Great composition and graphic contrast, a very atmospheric image.

Great contrast!! A forest where it would be easy to get lost.
Well done!

Wow... Love it!!!

man, I just love this...it's just perfect Jack...the contrast is just so wonderful...and the branches leaning over what might be a path...amazing detail as well in the snow, etc...very nice...

Fabulous processing and a great quote, Jack.

Very nice image,it has something very "Narnia" about it,well done !!

Very artistic. I like how you've given exact effect to those branches that they would have needed.

Magnificent vision of the forest !
Magnificent photo !

Fantastic processing. I just love the branches spread across and reaching the ground. Sometime back you had posted the same tree-line on a misty day. Great contrast.

A great graphic composition. Well done.

I love it! =)

A fine graphic image. These snow laden branches in this fine contrast look very, very good!

Spectacular winter shot, 5 stars

nsice winter shot

I love it! Definitely a 5 star image. The snow on the branches and processing you used make this outstanding.

wow--is that snow? u really know how to captured people's attention...

Great composition & PP work!

Great contrast, great quote!

Celle- là est très belle ... presqu'un tableau

Brr ...it looks cold! As in Sweden:) I prefere summer.
But a nice photo...as usual!

nice... =)

this is very beautiful, my friend. And it looks so different from the earlier spring/summer images that you have posted of this spot, but then the BW also heightens this as well.

Stunning!!! Love the contrast.

Fantastic high contrasted B&W, bravo Jack.

excellent image !

great shot

Very nice picture with perfect B&W processing. Super !

great shot

It's not cheating. I regularly post photos from way back.

Nice capture...

very nice capture !!! wonderfull B&W....

Beautiful scene. Black and white with snow is one of my favorites.

Beautiful. There is a nice contrast in this BW picture. I like all those branches, very complex mixed with the relative simplicity of the ground. I might have crop a little the left to get rid of the branch going down?

Simple and beautiful! I love the lines!

Superb.

Beautiful, full of mystery.

This is really beautiful. Excellent contrasts.

Breathtaking and beautiful do not even scratch the surface. This one truly moves me.

WOW It is very beautifull.
My congratulations.

Fantastic shot with great atmosphere.

Lovely! I like the composition and how you processed it. Nice winter feel. I can imagine walking there.

Very creative and dramatic, Jack ... like this a lot! ... ron

Brilliant capture my friend...i do live this...excellence all the way

Brilliant capture my friend...i do love this...excellence all the way