It might benefit from a more elongated crop, say 16:9, removing the top ¼ or so. Its busyness competes with the bird. Me thinks.
Is the image about the water texture with the bird as an accent or is it about the bird action with the water as a background ?
My feeling is that cropping isn’t something that we do to an image. It does it itself – demanding to be constrained in certain ways. Sometimes there’s more than one way, but it eventually becomes obvious what the photograph itself wants. This isn’t metaphor. The best photographs demand to be a certain shape. The rest make no such requests, and that’s what separates the winners from the also-rans.—Michael Reichmann, Understanding the Art of Cropping, March, 2011
I like it as it is. . . . the bird is the main element (for me) and it is very strong and my eyes don't seem to roam around too much.Bravo.
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i cannot see any bird... it finally has flown...