My first impression of this picture is it is very flat. I feel the trees get kind of muddled up, and then the nice detail of the fence going through the picture gets lost.
The nice details of the snow on the branches also seem lost. If you wanted to submit to gain a high score, I think you did well not to (IMHO). I'd be curious to know your PP steps on this. It feels like a bump in contrast, and maybe a different way of converting to B&W would have given this a bit more oomph |