I guess you like the golden colour here, which at first glance is quite nice, but it is the result of an underexposed photograph, probably caused by your camera being set to automatic. The tree does help to blot out the sun a little but you haven’t given it the space it deserves. The under exposure has turned all the low lights to black so that the tree and the distant shore have become one, the sky is too dark and the water too. As a viewer I am not sure what to look at and then it is all a bit squint, the horizon sloping off to the left…
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