Good eye and skillful art, as with your bristlecone pine rework. My only concern here is that the frame, as rendered, is unbalanced and somewhat distracting.
I am not a pleasant pheasant plucker, nor a pheasant plucker's pleasant son, but I'll be plucking pleasant pheasants long after the pleasant pheasant plucker's pleasant son's gone.
I like this photgraph. Im not so sure i would have even thought of taking a picture of this. It turned out really well. Now comes the second part. Note i said i like this photograph:P. Im not a big fan of the border. It shows well on top, but im thinking you used the ground in the front to make the border and i think it blends in to much. I think something that would blend both on the top and the bottem or not blend at all would have been better. But the photography is really what i look for, so you win on this one.
"A piece of toast with butter always lands butter side down, and a cat always lands on its feet. What happens if a piece of toast is tied butter side down to the back of a cat? Does it perpetually hover above the ground in indecision when dropped?"
Came up in the voting booth and the only thing to knock any points off for me was the border. It doesn't need texture the photo is full of great textures and colors. Marvelous shot.