Icefall

Good composition, but teh whites are too muddy.

rule of thirds parrot is cackling, but I think the composition is about right. You might want to crop out some of the dead space on the lhs or rhs.

 

Nice job.

I like

Love It Ansel Adams, watch out!

A nice telephoto lens like the Leica APO Teleyt 180mm F3.5 would have been perfect. That lens is so sharp but expensive. I wish I could afford it.

Print down the trees at the top of a bit, since the fine detail is relatively light and distracts from the strong shapes of the rocks and ice, and maybe print the rocks on the left edge down a bit so they compete less with the ice. The bring the overall contrast up a notch or two to increase the brilliance. It's a nice composition, and you can see that there is a good level of detail in both the light and dark regions, so it probably just didn't scan well. It's a good composition though, and probably gains from being seen larger than it is on the screen.