I suppose i am going to start things off (fitting since this thread was my idea i suppose):

The first thing that came to me when looking at this shot was that it was too busy.  You have the man on his boat coming out of the harbour and the bird coming in from the left. Also there is a row of boats, a row of surfboards/huts, and then a row of houses all on top of each other. In such a "cluttered" environment i think it is difficult to capture the entirety of a scene, concentrating on one aspect of the scene would be my prefered method of approaching taking a picture in this location.

I hope you dont mind, but to illustrate what i am saying i have cropped the image into a portrait shot with fewer elements. Also i think with long objects like masts a portrait orientation does seem to work better - although not all the time...

With the original shot there wasnt a single identifiable "subject" apart from the scene in question, with fewer things to look at via this crop the eye is drawn to the man in his boat on the bottom right but still has other points of interest in the picture. 

I hope that was helpful, and i wait to see what others have to say and hopefully have a discussion about different elements of the image.

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