Morning, Mendenhall Lake, Juneau, Alaska

I took this picture this morning while with my kids on a cub scouts'

campout. Any thoughts on this photo or ways it could be improved?

I love this. The colors, every thing Very nice. 7/7

nice photo... I might try a tighter crop on the upper left corner.

 

good shot - I like the mist floating along 6/5

Wonderful capture of mood and texture - nice! This works very well. I think the foreground trees at the bottom are a bit distracting, and might prefer a simpler composition with the trees cropped out. Good work, Lance.

Except for the trees in the foreground it`s a wonderful photo

Thanks for the responses. I actually have already cropped quite a bit out of the foreground, and also tried other crops with the trees completely taken out, but to retain the 4:3 ratio and preserve the sense of openness, I chose the cropping as is. Here is the same photo cropped simply to remove the trees. The length:width is now 2:1. While I do prefer the photo, I generally limit myself to fairly close to the same ratio as the camera captured. Do you all do this also, or is that much of a consideration when editing?