Nothing says "sub - arctic" as birches!! I always love their bark. And the reptition works very well in your image, it really makes you feel that you are entering one of those high latitude forests. 

My kind of image!  I might consider bringing in the black point? Also, I think converting this to B&W and bumping the contrast would be very sweet.  Very nice image.

Roel, I like this kind of image too and I think you came up with a comp that works very nice to show these birch off. I like Harley's thoughts about a b&w version too.

Nick Bristol

I like the reptition and you've really got things lined up nicely here.  Saturation and contrast, though, seems weak.  I think it's possible to push this a lot further to something much more expressive.

Interesting juxtaposition of Spruce and Birch. A little unusual as the Birch usually likes a drier forest floor but these guys can make it along the verges of the dense Spruce. As I sit here this morning in a birch forest the leaves are just fully unfurled in that perfect unfaded apple green.  

Your image is particularly fascinating in it's studied imperfection of the trees and conflicting boreal zones. The demarcations being so abrupt. Not more than 100 meters from where I sit the zone goes from dry Birch, Aspen and White spruce to dense Black spruce with a termination much as you have captured.  The Boreal Chicadee's seldom venture that 100 meters down the hill from their prefered black spruce jungle. 

As is typical here the larger version is better. In a big print one could rove about the image feasting on all the things to see in a forest scene!  Perhaps the visual impact could be hyped up a little with clarity or saturation as the light is quite flat, but as it is it conveys what the forest really looks like, things don't always need be a race to maximum impact, a lot to learn about a subtle world!

Thanks for sharing!    Tom

I like how you've worked the composition to evenly space the trees and individualize them so to speak, Roel. A very natural scene providing an interesting look. Nice work......

Very nice composition, I like the repetition and the fact that I can see all of them entirely without anyone partly hidden. I don't know if it's possible to push the contrast or the saturation to bring out a bit more the lichen on the bark because it's a very interesting element of this forest.

I like the spacing you selected, Roel. A deeper contrast or black adjustment might strengthen this nice forest image.

Hi Roel,

Your vision on this image is wonderful, and the spacing of the trees is just about perfect. The repeating verticals of the tree trunks is very effective in sharing the experience with the viewer. I like the idea of bringing down the the black point, and adding a bit more contrast and vibrance. Also, this could make a killer black and white, and I was wondering if you would mind if I did a screen capture of this to play around with a black and white version?

This is an image I really enjoy Roel, and I think some minor tweaks could really make it sing!

Hi Ryan, thanks for your comment (same goes of course for the others as well)! Sure, go ahead and have fun with it! I have been playing a bit with the B+W version after Harley's comment, and it indeed looks very nice in B+W, but I am not very good at B+W so I'm sure it could be improved a lot more, haha.