I love your new avatar, you look so happy! This is a beautiful forest. I like the reflection for your reflection period. I'd like to start hiking in the forest and finding some interesting outdoor photography.
The reflections are more pronounced than the actual trees are. Could be that gray sky that zaps the color out of them. Or perhaps you did a little color zapping to highlight the water??
@lyndemc Thanks Denise - I walk here often and every time I am struck by the reflections in the puddles and I take several shots of them but the resulting images never have the impact that the scene did. This time I took the shot virtually at ground (water!) level using a very wide angle lens and I exposed for the darkest tone in the water. The sky area, including the trees, is actually overexposed and I didn't correct that, leaving the trees with a lacy look. Finally, I desaturated the orange and yellow channels by half leaving green as the predominant colour.
Good spot, great shot.
Ian