Lorie Novak Emulation 2

I took this picture emulating Novak's theme in many of her pieces: an eye or face used as a canvas for another image. I brought both images to a much lower saturation and then layered the eye image over the tree, bringing the eye to a lower opacity. Novak used a greater level of contrast, bringing her images to a black and white level, but I chose to keep some saturation in my work, as I wanted some of the color in the eye. I used the clone stamp tool to rid the tree image of unwanted distractions. do you think the pine tree on the right is distracting?