Very artistic and tasteful composition. Title appropriate to the emotions generated by this photo. I like the subtle shades in the sky as well. Masterful work!
I especially like the constrast between foreground and background. Very start. Almost surreal. I like that the background sky is varied and not just one blown out white space. It feels like you've rotated the image. If so, it was a good choice. If not, it was well captured as is. Great job. Among my top picks.
Nice high contrast image. The connection to the challenge seems rather tenuous. Quite a bit of the tree is in the shot. There really isn't much left out to give the viewer a strong impression that he is only seeing part of the tree.