This image was captured at the end of a narrow slot canyon, and for a brief period the sun aligns with the canyon walls and illuminates the waterfall and surround cliffs. Getting to the shooting location requires some rather sketchy rock climbing to get down to the pool where I shot the image. When I returned home to process the image I noticed that the image seems off balance on the left edge where it is cut-off as the waterfall empties into the pool. It still like the image, but the missing the composition in the field just bugs the heck out of me! Note to future self --- Watch your edges!!!
Agree with you about the comp, and know the feeling well, Peter! Pity, as it has the makings of a good image in other respects. If you'd swung left, you'd just about have got it. See my edit (with apologies for the crude cloning) just to give an idea of the composition I'd have in mind here.
Note to your future self from my regretful past self: take lots of variations of composition at a site like this. That in itself makes you think more about the various possibilities, and their pluses and minuses.
I usually spend hours if possible at a site like this, milking all the possibilities, and still often later wish I'd done something different. The best images are rarely the earliest ones, but rather ones made after I get "in the zone".
Thanks for the input! Normally I would have "Worked the site" much more than I did. I think I was too anxious to work other areas of the canyon before the light was gone. Took the shot and thought "Nailed It"; I know better than that!!!