Great subject - first AND last part of the day you mean! The cropping seems a little random to me, but I bet there was a lot of distracting stuff just outside the view of this picture.
this is well framed, it is just enough pattern to stay interesting, and few enough pieces of the pattern to be able to stay an object with interest. looks good, and that's a hard object to make interesting, btw
Took me a few minutes to work out what this was a shot of, not that there's anthing wrong with that. I suppose it was difficult to know where to crop this shot, what to leave in and what to miss out? Interesting because of its unusual viewpoint. Nice tones. Having said that I think it needs a more dramatic light source to lift it higher in the voting. I know that was probably out of your control.