Partially close your eyes...view both... in the second version the wonderful sense of rocking flow dynamics back and forth across your vision easily experienced in the first, has been stripped from the second...the life and vitality removed...this one was well seen when captured whether or not the realization was there of the "why"...it really was not about where insignificant man stands but what he opened himself to experience...sometimes the "rules" of composition rob one of ones inner, and more truthful vision...
but that being said , this is just "acw's" opinion and gut reaction...
....it was less about where "man" would move, and more about being still to experience the vitality flowing around him... (caveat) for me...