Jim Holsenback wrote:

> sterile appearance .... I keep falling into the trap of having everything 
> lined up just so. 

Not necessarily a trap.  I personally find a "compulsion to tidiness", 
if you will accept the phrase, to be very expressive and a very 
encompassing metaphor.  It goes to the idea of understanding through 
ordering. And, when applied to landscape, it can allude in a backhanded 
manner to the chaotic in nature even as we seek to find order there. 
The taunt play you have between the geometry of the cattails and the 
small variation in their placement is nice.  The camera view emphasizing 
the geometry of the florals is great.  Personally I think you could push 
the scene further by adding some greater regularity to the clouds 
somehow.  Perhaps even the ripples too though I am not so sure there.

Also, when you allow some regularizing to enter your scene, you open up 
the marvelous potentials of relating the geometry of the scene objects 
and their placement to the compositional potential of the containing 
frame.




Also .... I thought the "Vee" of Canadian Geese added a
> nice finish to the scene.

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