Wonderland # 2 + repost

Sweet colors. Love the red against the green. I could see trimming a little off the top, but works nicely as presented. 

This looks significantly better than the previous one of same subject. 

great color, and nice sense of warmth without going overboard. I agree with Harley's crop suggestion.The soft light is really nice, Ed.
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Ed,

Definitely like the comp here better and the processing is better as well - although my personal tasted might be to pop the reds a little more.  One thing I sometimes do and I think I learned this from Preston, is add a Levels or Curves layer to your stack in PS and change the blending mode to "soft light."  You don't make any adjustments, other than dropping the opacity way down like to 10% (to taste of course.)  Just one of a gazillion ways to add pop and contrast to an image.

Anyway, back to your image.  Before reading the comments I also was going to suggest a slight crop off the top - mainly to exclude the browns and also the white bare branches left of top center.  Minor suggestion.

Otherwise, I'm really enjoying the arrangement and mix of reds with the greens - and this view doesn't have that intruding element at the bottom.

Wonderful image.

Lon

Ed, I prefer this one over the last as well. Very nice. Nick

Superb, Ed. Those rich reds are set-off beautifully by the evergreens. Processing looks spot-on and framing works well as-is but I could also see experimenting with taking a small slice off the top.

Here is a repost with a little crop from the top as suggested by a few folks. Thanks for your input everyone.

Ed

The repost is a subtle but good look to my eye. I find it tightens up the comp nicely. 

This is outstanding.Comparing this to your previous post, I like this one better. The comp seems much more balanced to my eye. The other seemed a little left heavy on second viewing.

Ed, I like this version much better than the first one. I think you found a good white balance for processing these Wonderland images. I also think the prior image was not as strong  because you had a dark black tree trunk serving as a frame on the left side of the image, and it drew attention away from the rest of the scene.

That's not the case here, your composition has a very pleasing arrangement of pines within the scene, and it works very well, it's nicely balanced. Good job here....

Red and Green, must be getting close to Christmas...  The colors and especially the touch of glow in the greens look great here, Ed.  It's a great mix of real and abstract.  Fascinating how the crop off the top seems to emphasize the greens even as the amount of green in the image is reduced.  I do think the crop is a nice improvement on an already fine image.

Ed, Nice composition that for sure!  I might suggest a tab bit of curves or levels in the luminosity mode. I say that because the reds are popping quite nice and any additional levels or curves work in normal mode may oversaturate the reds. 
Cheers!