woods on fire

This is another attempt to go "outside the box" and to convey in a personal way what I felt standing in front of a flaming fall woods (in Cansiglio, north eastern Italy).
Due to the high contrast between the luminous sky and the dark trees in the shadow, the colors of this specific shot were nothing special, so I desaturated them completely in p.p. to greyscale.
Despite the absence of colors, I tried to convey the "flaming feeling" with a sinuous vertical movement able to mix the "scratches" due to the leaves over the dark areas of the trunks.
I put the grey frame around the image only as a separation from the white of the page.
Comments, critics and suggestione are welcome.


Eos 5D MkII, 90mm, f/16, 0.3 sec, ISO 50
PP: conversion to greyscale and slight contrast with curves