I was stumbling around the Web and came across this photo by Kevin Galvin on the natgeo website:
Which looked really familiar to me. So I hunted around my photos and found this:
I took this back in 2006 in Ireland. Same hut, just a slightly different point. It shows that where you’re standing when you take a photo is just as important as where you’re pointing the camera. Mine, is a snap shot. Kevin’s is a photograph. The cropping is better and the little stream leads your eye into the image.
I had photoshopped a version:
Better cropping and colour has helped, as does the tilt-shift which gives some focus to the hut. But the foreground is just boring. Lesson I learned is to look around a bit and don’t rely on doing everything in postwork. But it was kinda cool to see a similar shot on a website.