Photoshop Creative

I thinking of entering a few photos in a Florida State Parks contest. This is one I'm considering, but think it may look better cropped, which I tried........but not sure if it's the best crop.

Thoughts on this requested....please.

I like the crop or maybe just clone out the red flowers and go with the original.
Tina B

I think the prospective of the top pic ,showing more of the first large post ,leads the eye a lot more down into the pic hun. For me,in the second pic there is a lot of sky with nothing going on.
min.

Hope yu dont mind hun had a play ,what about this ?

Thanks....can't do any cloning, photos can only have crop, light/color adjustments...perhaps sharpening. Anything else gets disqualified.

I do think I can crop so the 1st post is all in the picture without the flowers, or mostly. Cutting out some of the sky looks good too.

I think it's important to keep the columns "anchored". Each one that's in the image should, IMHO, have at least a bit of green grass showing below its bottom. Otherwise, it's the same as pictures of people with their feet cut off.

I think your instincts were right in taking a bit off the bottom rather than the top. I like the tree in the upper left corner, it has an attractive crown.

Just my 2¢

Rusty

my 2cents i like the original.

tennie,

I think I like your original the best. However, I did try a crop to get rid of the car. I used a 4x6 size crop; I'm not sure if that matters in the contest. If you can do a freeform crop, then I'd get rid of the car but leave more of the sky and foreground.

Courtney

Thanks everyone. My main objective was to get rid of the car. Rusty's point about 'anchoring' the post (got the same advice on a photography forum) really made me look clearly at the picture. Min is right about the sky, but I like the line of trees so will have to keep it for this shot. Courtney, your crop is almost exactly what I came up with except I kept more on top. As far as I know the only size restriction is at least 1000 px.