How to crop this shot?

[Nathan deGargoyle]

Generally speaking I crop to traditional sizes (3:2, 4:3, 7:5 etc.) so when I was trying to find the best composition from This shot I initially went for




But after playing around in GIMP I also tried



Which do you prefer?

Or can you post a better crop from the original; please feel free to play!

[Brave_ulysses]

i much prefer the second one
it just feels better
the first has too much empty space

[Itanium]

IMO, top one can be improved if you bring top-left a little bit more in to the picture. Somewhere around top-left ROT intersection. Don't mind cutting bottom-right leaves, they are not much obvious in first place.

[kljucd1]

Hi,

I think that on the second image, you should clone out the log on the top left and the fern leaf and plant on the top right.

Regards

Daniel...