This is a brilliant image for my taste VMR. I simply love the mood, the sense of distance, subtlety spread over the image and above all it's making me understand Peace of mind. Superb processing and I would remember this one for a long long time. Believe me, it felt like my heart skipped a beat by seeing this. Some images just get inside the heart and sit in there, I think that's what art is, we really do not need to try so hard to study it and then understand so many things associated with it, the one's which will capture the mind will always do it. My heartiest compliments for this one. I do not remember seeing a lot of black and white images from you , so this one makes me even happier.

Beautiful mood sir, I opened the image multiple times to take it in.
If you could get the ripples to pop a little and a little crop from the top might help IMO.

I liked those sharp trees against the river current. Mood is in the air. My guess is sepia tone works better to my taste.