sorry but it looks more like blown highlights to me.

I did little to modify the original picture apart from change it to b+w. The sun was shining through the tree towards the camera.

Interesting, but a little OOF

Nice shot...

Beautiful

Nice refraction

Absolutely amazing, love the reflection

Lovely, great detail

this is great, but with so much light in the fg, how did you get so much black in the bg? looks like you use some sort of ring flash.

It was taken after dark using a macro-ringlight flash so the BG is black as the pine branch is hanging out into open space and the macro flash only projects a meter or so...

Nice... might have left a bit more background on the top or bottom so it wasn't so centered

Thanks...adjusted the crop a bit to give a better angle...