Struggling to decide between Brant and Jonathan's shots.

Zach, better focus, and I like the stronger color, but I preferred the original positioning.

Stephen, nice star-trail, but I find everything else too dark. The distance hills are dark. The reflected trails are dark. If you had accumulated more shots to lengthen the trails, it likely would have brightened everything but the reflection too (I'm assuming these are an additive stack of shots). Often star-trail shots include another foreground element to add more interest to the scene. The darkness just leaves this one feeling like it's missing something.

Brant, Jonathan, based on the sky, mountain, and snow cover, you were there on different days. You both selected nearly identical framing, and you both decided to block both the bridge and the flow of the river with the tree branch. As these are both typical focal points of a landscape image, I'm really curious what compelled you both to obscure them.

Brant. I like the clouds, the texture in the water, and the clarity of the mountains.

Jonathan. I like the color, and the marginally better view of the bridge. The clouded mountains give it a bit of a mystical feel.

The color alone is really drawing me to Jonathan's image, but Brant's got the mountains, the sky, the water, and he posted first. I'm wait until I'm home where I can download the pair so I can swap back of forth on a large monitor instead of scrolling around this thread on a smaller screen before I call a winner.