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Comment by Avril Kirby on September 15, 2019 at 9:58pm

I like the sense of empty spaces the top one gives me, even of abandonment in those cropped rocks that could have been old castles. Beautiful. And in the bottom one all the leading lines point to the far bright island, so Pat's right--they do seem like different photos. How exciting photography is!

Comment by Patricia Page on September 4, 2019 at 10:15pm

I like both versions a lot.  In fact, they don't seem like the same photo.

Comment by anna mccolm on September 3, 2019 at 10:50pm

I like what you've done but I miss the far rocks on the left! Your crop works though.

Comment by Doug McMillin on September 3, 2019 at 11:41am

I find a conflict between uncertainty and beauty: At first it seems (to me) necessary to identify the distant object (a treed rocky island) and then it's distracting. The foreground is a glorious by comparison.

This crop, suggesting a longer lens in portrait format, uses the far island to advantage:

 

(I also leveled the waterline and tweaked a bit overall.)