Although I would like to say it's always better to submit to get feedback, on this site that's just not true. The way the challenges work IMHO you really need to have your ducks in a row before you submit.
In this case, I don't think this would have done well as is. I think there are several things you could have done to improve it (my opinion only, of course).
To me, this is a good base for an impressionistic photo (yes, that's another thread). Here's what I would do:
1) You could crop the top--the sky peeking through is distracting. I would go for the top 1/5 or so.
2) Fix the overexposed areas on the trunk using levels
3) Experiment with softening this a little, if you want to go impressionistic.
The centered composition still weakens it a bit, but doing the above would have improved its score, IMHO.
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