Bruce why do you like this image?
I like, that the odd constructions people build to strain for a view, are part of the view they strain for. I like that this might suggest to viewers of the photo that they look for something. It's the quest, not that there is anything, beyond light and wind on the water.
I like the way the bright roofs work with the sky so I don't have to darken the sky.
The light is not comfortable, but I have and will see enough of it that I might as well like it.
I like the tension between the forces flatting the image [the collection of various flat pail shades, the odd angles in the right foreground, the interruption of the horizon, and the cloud shadow that locks the foreground to the opposite shore] and the forces defining depth.
I like the coincidence of the brightest cloud being above the foreground vertical.
I like that the horizon is level, but looks like it's not [many other frames weren't].
I like that it looks good upside down in black and white.
In the early morning, before it was too hot, I was up on the roof with a pole saw trimming a broken limb and a little new growth away from the roof behind this shot. When I turned to go this scene caught my eye. I fetched my camera and shot several frames. The light was softer, but the view was hazy. Later, rather than work, I noticed the haze was gone.
It bothers me that the red oak [the lighter leaves through the railing] are blurred by the wind [but maybe in a good way?]. That the foreground is out of focus doesn't bother me, because I am familiar with it and there isn't much more to see there anyway.
I may try again.
Bruce