I kept seeing pictures of trees here and elsewhere and I really considered this as a challenge, can I do something similar and not purely cliche? These shots are the closest to my goal by far and thus my strong desire to some comments as I learned my objectivity in photography is not my strongest asset.
mostly because of the position of the trees close to the lateral edges of the frames
I was trying to achieve a frame, particularly on the second so the view is drawn to the center where the point of interest is. I do have few with the trees not as close but when I look my eyes want to wander too much on those sides so I decided to force the viewer to look where I wanted.
That said, I'm not quite sure about the small branch elements in lower rt. corner...I go back and forth on this.
I already cloned a similar branch on the left lower corner but for some reason that on the right didn't bother me that much, I get the impression the area will feel empty if I clone it away.
All in all thank you for the comments.
These shots along with my other 2 topics (snow and shore, lake Michigan) were taken in a 2 hour span, probably some of my most productive 2 hours in photography.