Spent way too long faffing around with this one but thinking probably the main problem is that I should’ve got the tripod out rather than trying to do this handheld in fading light and tried a bit harder with the composition. The contrast with the sky and the ground is hard to handle and the trees kind of merge into the hill behind.
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Feels cold…
I started with this one to bring out that bit of color in the sky/clouds, but became more enamored with the textures of the rest of the image. Led to a grayscale, and bit more aggressive output sharpen to dapple-up the textures:
It’s funny you should say that. I was just looking at the one uploaded and it seems to be an older version. Darktable is showing a warmer version (the only copy I have is an earlier export below) in the lightable but a colder version in darkroom that it is exporting…
I was inspired by the dark and gloomy look when I first opened the image in DT.
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We talking exposure or personality?
@TonyBarrett I refer to the exposure of course. I try and avoid personal attacks here, but if your personality is also dark and gloomy, so be it 
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Kinda like @Terry I was inspired by the gloomy look. In fact I was sort of surprised to see the fenced area in there… before I saw it, the scene had a remote Scandinavian fjord vibe to it. Still does, actually…
Anyway, here’s what I did in ART 1.21.24
The little snow field in the midground went all blue on me, so I had to bring it back from the brink a bit. The trees have to faint dark cyan-ish touch that I’m not real fond of, now that I see it posted. But oh well, whatever… It’s time for bed. 
Hi Len, not as gloomy and depressing as mine.
Nice! Can you say something to the location this photo was taken?
Not sure, but I think I like classic 3:2 more:
Gloomy is probably closer to the scene, though obv my eyes had adjusted. I messed around with rgb primaries to try to bring back that snow from the blue, and from the pic in general and boosted the yellows with CBR and a mask.
Wow. Need to look at these on something bigger than my phone but love the drama from what I can see right now.
The pic is at Loch Arklet in Stirling in the Scottish Highlands. There’d been a day or so of light snow, followed by freezing temperatures (minus high single digits overnight) for two days in the area so decided to see what it was like. The road to the loch from Aberfoyle becomes single track and though somewhat gritted, it started to get too sketchy, broken up and icy with compacted snow for the 2WD I was driving. So this was as far I got. You can drive quite a bit further down an even narrower unmarked road the length of the loch and I’d tried to call a hotel at the end of that road to see if it was passable but they said the place was closed from October for the winter, Overlook Hotel-style.
I always find it interesting to see the coordinates of the places where you take the shots, thanks for sharing.
Greetings. Roberto
I was waiting for your punchy black-framed take. Nice
I’m going with this version. Had to steal the large white border - sorry 'bout that @Thomas_Do 
