Wind Blown Tree
This is a rare photo of a tree that works. It does a few things to make that happen - the tree has a completly independent silhoutte, there is a human scale element in the photo to provide scale and the lighting allows you to find it. These are rare circumstances.
Trail Half Covered In Snow
I suspect that the trail has a gap in the canopy over it which is why there is more snow on the ground on the trail than other places.