... I’m curious if you have versions from few steps to the left
I have several from a few steps in the opposite direction. As you can see from the attached file, I wasn't happy about the muddy foreground, so I did move to the left. Could have I moved even more to the left, as you suggest? Possibly. The reason I framed it as it is, is that I wanted for the tip of the reflection to be unobscured by the patches of grass (or "sea urchins," as someone observed). Something I doubt I could have achieved had I moved even further to the left.
Additionally, it was a rather hard shot physically. I had to literally straddle the mud, resting my feet on two dry patches of grass. The ground was very soggy from the constant raining the night and days before, and it was like walking on a fully-soaked sponge. I had my brand-new hiking boots on, $300, Italian, hand-made, all-leather inside and outside, and zero desire to subject them to such an ugly test
And the reason I had brand new boots is that my old, trusted, Timberland/GoreTex ones just died on me the day before, leaving my feet completely, utterly wet, to the point you could squeeze a gallon of water from the socks alone
