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Dear Michael, yes indeed thats a basic question to ask - always! BR JV

Dear Lannie, thanks for the commrnt. I will mail you the file, if you interested in it. It will be a great pleasure if you will have it on a wall! Might be a pohoto canvas will work best. BR Joerg

Arthur , thanks for the experiment. Yes indeed “ the result shows the marked difference between the healthy trees and those that seem to have been attacked (as the leafless branches seem to show).” We have been creating different versions including BW. It is a great learning process. I agree “Perhaps Fred's point regarding absence of drama or impact in the original is maintained in these modifications “. BR JV

David, thats a great statement: It's not about what it means, but about how it makes you feel, best regards to your wife! JV

The link doesnt work, sorry, hopefully it will be now ...

Dear all, made now an experiments: only by FastStone image viewer: only shadows, brightness, saturation , contrast changes: no color chanal changes or other changes. BR Joerg
/photodb/photo?photo_id=18151150

Saad thanks, your treatment suggestion is impressive, but doesn’t reflect the contradiction LIFE-DEPTH strong enough. A great hint from you is your finding that the duck plays a great rule. Its exactly in between and has not only the chance to fly to the depth area and life area: it has a chance to fly in the bright sky to another future (not shown here). That’s the imagination, or isn’t it. BR Joerg

Fred thanks, yes indeed we can ask it is still a photo or it is now a painting? It’s a cropped photo with a treatment: color and texture. Nothing was retouched, or brushed, even no distortion was corrected. The structure of the image is point by point taken by the sensor. Often we are accepting that photographers extremely retouch photos, correct details etc. However, I agree that the final image has a touch of a painting. Have a great 2016. BR JV

Excellent in content - cultural with and without headscarf-  question:  is it a traditional islamic one? ... and  might be a golden spiral effect? BR Joerg

Saad thanks, also to remember us concerning the golden rules not only for photographs also for paintings it makes sense to deal with it. There two well known basic ones: the Rule of Thirds and the Phi Grid divides the frame in a similar way, but makes the middle row and middle column smaller according to the golden ratio, resulting in 1:1.618:1 vertically and 1:1.618:1 horizontally … how to get? I was motivated by your comment to look again for rule models. Found this wonderful mathematical model: GODEL SPIRAL and the FIBANACCI SPIRAL. BR Joerg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral
More practical
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/golden-ratio-photography/
I mean we do it by our inspiration not by caalculations ...

Arthur, thanks for your BW version. It gives an interesting melancholic scene. The IR effects works great. However, the high tension between “life” and “depth” coming from the green tree at the left side and the lit trees at the right side is not pronounced. By the way, its not a Photoshop treatment. I used the free ware: FastStone Image viewer and Perfect Effects Free 9. BR Joerg

Love the soft effect it makes it dreamy! BR JV

Thanks Arthur for the detailed analysis, as you wished enclosed the Original Shot. Happy NEW Year 2016. BR JV
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/18150730-lg.jpg

Love that special scene: all in a chain but two not observing "the chain" . BR Joerg

Michael, as photographers we mostly don’t know what we will achieve as the final result. I made this shot 2013. I found it again in 2015 and I was wondering about it. I started to treat it without to change details of the original shot. You pronounced the bright structured sky and the dark tree limbs. I mean that is the point. A friend of mine, an important art collector and art expert, Georg Bruehl, said to me that each real art painting has to show up two aspects: somehow an optimistic aspect but also the end of something. It’s a luck that both aspects are in. Thanks for the comment : I wish you a Powerful 2016. BR Joerg

Tanks all for the discussions, especially David for the excellent detailed analysis.
Here are the missing information’s. In general, I used a “bad lens” and simple software.
- Sony SLT-A77V, ISO-200, A = 5, F =35 mm, 1/250, universal zoom for travelling: TAMRON 18-270 Di VC 3.5-6.3.
- Software FastStone Image Viewer and Perfect Effects 9 free

It seems to be one of my best works showing that both the equipment and the software are not the most important boundary condition to get a great result.
To all of photonet friends: I wish a bright creative and powerful 2016: BR Joerg

Great details with 3 structural levels. BR Joerg

Funny: Ecodrive against ...

Great bokeh effects

Tx Tony Brandstetter your comment describes very well what I wanted to transport. 

Tx Eystein Matheussen for your comment.

Tx Mehmet Akin for your comment.

Creative reflexion shot

Outstanding structural work

Made me smiling!