Trees over water

[Jaymz77]

Very, very nice! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Roger]

the full image shows more context for the scene without distracting from the great light...b&w would be nice for that too.

 

[Hertz van Rental]

the full image shows more context for the scene without distracting from the great light

But the context for the light was not what was important to me at the time.
I was just concentrating on the light effect itself.
By showing the light effect as part of a bigger scene it becomes just one element in that scene, it's importance reduced by the more dominant graphic elements of the silhouetted trees.
By moving in much closer to exclude everything that was going on around I could then treat the light more as an abstract compositional structure.

 

[ArtPhotography]

This is an amazing shot. I agree with you on the crop you chose. The black and white makes it even more dramatic. Good eye on that one!