Thanks for all the kind words everyone. It's been a month or two since I submitted an entry, so it was nice getting out again on Sunday to find something interesting for this week's assignment.
Relms,
I know what you mean - that light is a distraction. I thought about cropping from the bottom to remove it, but then I would loose some of the Lilies that I was trying to highlight. Perhaps I'll try burning that area a bit to tone it down. Thanks for pointing it out.
I masked off the reflected sky area in the lower left, and it turns out that the sky was not totally blown out allowing me to recover a little detail - but not much (fortunately I dialed in -1.0 EV for this shot as the histogram for the one I took prior to this showed that it was clipped). I feel this new version does not keep drawing the eye down to the lower left as the original one did for me.
I also tried cropping out the area, but I did not like the resulting aspect ratio, bridge placement and loss of content - but this is certainly one area where I seek opinions.
