Thanks for sharing your dreary shot. I really like this one very much because when I was a little girl, my grandfather had a swing hooked up for all us kids backed by woods like this. Definitely brings me back to the past.
The sharpness and tones are something I really like here. The swing feels a bit crowded against the foreground branches though and to me it works against the feeling of being open and out in the woods. I am wondering what it would have been like without those branches.