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By placing the icicles against the darker lower background you have created a nice back lit effect, and it is complemented by the zone to the top of the branch.

 

The left side is not very effective as there's not much going on there, so perhaps a square crop would work here: icicles, slanted branch and dark background in bottom half.

What Dominique said.

 

However... outside of the assignment, I fear there is simply not enough going on here. the shot seems to miss a clear subject, and/or a clear path to which the eye is drawn. The textures - tough lovely - are not enough to caputure the attention here. The branch might be a nice leading line, but it is not prominent enought. A crop like suggested by Dominique, would help indeed by taking away some of the less-interesting textures at the left, and make the branch more prominent, but I doubt all that would make the shot a winner.

 

Nonetheless, thanks for sharing PT. I'm sure the view in real life was pretty impressive.

 

My 2cts - feel free to disagree of course,

 

Tom

I also agree that the textures and resulting light-effects have potential, but necessarily need another compositional approach. If the resolution permits, cropping in such way that the branch becomes a dynamic compositional element could well be the start to this image's rebirth.

Very simple but with a beautiful visual effect!