Is it my eyes, or is this out of focus? I really like your composition, and the colors and contrast are really nice. The mood of the swamp is well captured.
I loved the idea of the broken tree amongst the other survivors. But my preference is to usually see the subject in focus and like others said, this seems soft. Since you used topaz, you may want to try this in black and white too to see what happens.
I like this, but it seems a bit soft. Can't tell if that was really the way the shot was, or if it happened when you resized it down. It's the only thing keeping me from giving this a high vote.
I really like this, and would have scored it much higher, but the focus seems so soft to me. I don't mind soft focus in some photos, but imo it doesn't help this one.