In Mississippi we just call them sweet gum trees but in other places they are called Liquid Amber. Just a simple Topaz Clean and Adjust treatment and framed with layer styles.
Beautiful composition, Judy. I like the combination of dark and light colors of the leaves. It goes very well with the complementary bg color. Nice border. TFS.
Judy, The colors are wonderful. I'm back and forth about the leaf at the top=it keeps drawing my eye-but I like the way it looks. I love the branches that look like shadows.:)
I agree with the others on fhe leaf on top, but note that the portion in the frame is offset slightly which adds to the ????. I think if you could line it up it might make it more acceptable. But still a very nice image.