OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:
Positives: I love how you've made this image seem so dreamy - I find with my work that foliage images can just look a bit messy but I have learnt a lot from look at this image. Colour handling is great as are the contrast characteristics.
Critical stuff: I do just wonder whether you might have got a slightly better sense of depth with a subtle vignette... just a thought.
Overall: Great looking image. Thanks for offering this up; I made need to revisit my 'foliage' challenge image now I've seen this!
Very nice autumn scene, love the colours. Not sure if that's a path running off into the distance or just a clearing, would be nice to have something to lead the eye into the scene though.