Gail Shaw wrote:
> And an idea that came to mind a week or so ago.
> 
> I'm going to put a little lizard on the branch in the foreground. Other than
> that,
> I'm not sure what to do with this
> 
Very strong image.  Really one of your best imo.  I would caution you to 
  be careful about adding animal life. It has some good possibilities to 
do so but to do so would take the picture down a narrative path when 
there is a lot to be appreciated about it in a design sense.  The 
ambivalent narrative meaning is not necessarily a bad thing.  And some 
of the things I already like about the picture include:  The low 
saturatioin of even monochrome suggesting either psychological dispair 
or ecological disaster, the subtly expressive effect of the water 
surface, the way the eye is teased by the minute information available 
along the horizon line, the strangeness of the non-bifurcated branch in 
the forground and how it grazes the the water surface.  I think much of 
the picture's appeal comes from its minimalism.  Perhaps that is a 
direction you could explore.

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