No, Felix looks cool, it's just that for it to work better for me, it requires even more space on the right: a panoramic camera (with rapid af, of course) would have made the feeling of danger intruding just that little bit stronger. Alternatively, if it's a crop, try forming the pic by using more background but cropping down and upwards.
There's a painting by one of the now-defunct Scottish artists (whose name escapes me right now) of a little person herding a family of ducks out of the left side of the frame. One duck is similarly cut, and it marked a whole new direction for the accepted face of composition within certain schools of artistic thought. However, they may have been geese, but I suppose that wouldn't alter the dynamic...
If you are willing to leap sideways a little bit, there's a similar concept at work in a beautiful shot from Francis Giacobetti in the 1970 Pirelli of, I think, Alexandra Bastedo wearing a string bikini whilst sitting on the sand at the extreme left of the frame, except that she's looking out, as were the feathered friends in the earlier example: magnifique! So yes, unusual sometimes works very well indeed.
( Thought I'd give examples just to keep feppe happy... ;-) )
Rob C
