This could easily be a poster for a movie. It creates many unanswered questions. Who is this guy. Where is he going? Why? Why now? The swath of green in the otherwise mostly B&W gives us some hope it will not end badly. Super job.
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 the Mu (most underrated) award:
Positives: High in mystery, steeped in mist! It would have been really easy to take this down a monochrome route but it really is well served by the colour. The well saturated green conspires with the mist to actually make me feel damp just looking at it.
Critical stuff: I think I might have shot a bit further on and cleared the overhanging tree, though of course you would have then missed the excellent slanty one to the right and you might have got your camera wet too!