The composition is nice if a bit far from the boarder, and I really like the trees shrouded in haze, but that show is nasty. :) Also, what is going on in the back? It looks like someone lost a board! I also noticed some fringing from compression in the sky, the file is just 20K, you could have compressed it a lot less.
Sure looks cold there. With the stormy conditions you got good stop action. I find the other objects in foreground and background distract from the picture.
well captured and stopped in what looks pretty poor lighting conditions - good external flash would have helped to light and colour the subject making it stand out darkening the backdrop and giving u a faster shutter speed - allowing you to get even closer to the subject - just my thoughts - additional equipment is not always at your disposal.
I like your viewing angle. Very interesting subject. As constructive criticism, you may have tried to overexpose the scene a little more. As you may already know, when shooting in a bright scene, such as snow or very bright sunlight, the camera will tend to meter for a short exposure or small (numerically large) aperture as it tries to average the scene to neutral grey. You then have to overexpose the shot to compensate for this if your subject is a darker object in the scene. I think this probably would have been a fabulous photo if the exposure would have been "nailed". Again, please take this in the spirit it is intended as I have no desire to "tell you something you already know". Nice work.
I like the fog in this photo. The effect of stopped motion in this photo is OK too. To improve this photo, I may have cropped differently to eliminate the empty space at the top of the shot. I don't know if you could have had the camera lower to the ground, but if so, it may have created a more dramatic effect.