After voting through the challenge myself I realized that high contrast with blown out snow works better for this kind of images and some Neat Image for dreaminess would have done wonders. I guess that's why we do these challenges - to learn...
Statistics
Place: 49 out of 249 Avg (all users): 6.0000 Avg (commenters): 4.0000 Avg (participants): 5.8025 Avg (non-participants): 6.1194 Views since voting: 952 Views during voting: 317 Votes: 215 Comments: 1 Favorites: 0
there are a lot of lines that are making my eye wanted all over this shot becuase of the slats that make up this bench it it forcing my eye to slide down it to the tree behind it. a bit to chaotic.