Thanks commenters and voters! This did much better than I expected - last minute entry, and last day, and hand-held at full 12x zoom.
About the noise: not intentional - too hasty a conversion; thanks to your promptings, pineapple's in particular about channels, I have since begun to learn channel mixing in the Gimp. So thanks again, very.
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I like the compostion and the "look through the trees" feel but I find the noise as a distraction. I know the noise may be intentional as to add to the look but I find that it is a bit overbearing in the picture.
Might have been worth running a noise reduction s/w like Noise Ninja on the blue and/or red channels before converting to b/w. Otherwise, this fits the bill.
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