Judges Comments

There is lovely side lighting, giving light and shadow and beautiful colour to the leaves. The image is well focused. I feel the image is a little too busy and my

eye wanders, looking for a point to settle on. I suggest you select say just the tip of the centre branch on the LH side as there are only a few leaves and

great shadow shapes and a few seeds and simplify your image. You may have to clone out a few intrusive bits. This would then give a very strong, simple image