Surprised this finished so low. Well, on second thought maybe I'm not, but it's a great pic. Compositionally excellent with nice texture all around, especially on the ice. Great shapes and lines. I bet this looks great at a much larger size.
Yeah well - simply the amount of time you've worked in this square format has put this out of reach of most judges understanding; I'm glad you submitted - an interesting lesson in composition, even if it were nothing else.
Can't quite get away from this image - I almost just passed on, but the composition grabs my eye. The chaos of those snow-lines is intriguing, especially as it resolves in the top left; the little echo of it bottom right is somehow just not quite there - the focus not being as crisp, nor the processing to bring it quite into the same luminance space - it detracts a touch from the relationship of the two areas; with advanced editing, that should be fixable, no? And the composition is so subtle that I'm surprised its been missed. Interesting photography, whatever.