Thank you for your thoughts, Mike. The shot is from a place less than a half mile from my home, not a vacation shot.
What appealled to me was the symmetry of the tree and its color juxtaposed to the bramble underbrush.
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Maybe if you move in a bit closer and use a shallow DOF to isolate the main subject? It is quite graphic, might work well in B&W?