I don't think it's the shot or the composition as much as it's the subject. Let's face it it's stagnant water with some leaves floating in it. Not exactly a pritty picture you know. BUT if you wanna keep it! 'UM-1. I like the shadow on the leaf on the right. The weird light to me was not distracting not was the shadow on the leaf to the left. But at the botom of the picture you start to loose focus. Can you place the lower section onto a seperate layer then sharpen the focus and blend it in. AND I think you may want to increase the contrast. More red and yellow hunh! Hmm I would have thought to increase blue. Have you thought about grey scaling the picture OR converting it to inverse? I hope you dont' mind my playing around with it a tad bit. Bsteph