What do you think?

[kc9ljo]

The last time I dabbled in photography was a decade or so ago with an FM10. I recently picked up a D3000, and am trying to relearn the manual modes. Here's a photo I think is kinda neat. I'd like to hear what you think.
Thanks

 

[sleist]

I like the concept, but the execution is a bit lacking. All the grass in the foreground detracts and makes the composition seem busy and confused. I'd go back in better light and shoot landscape orientation with the subject less centered, a shallower depth of field, and more room to breath in the frame..

 

[The_Traveler]

I'm not sure what you are taking a picture of - the pump or the tree?

They share the space but don't seem related.
If the pump, then why is it off to one side (yes I see the handle but there has to be a composition-realted reason for this.)

Elements need to be placed in a frame so that the viewer understands what you are showing them, in a sense seeing what you are seeing and why it is important.

I don't get that here.