great photo by the way. Wonderful light...but I'm gonna stop looking at the photo now cause it gets me angry...have to commute over that damn bridge every day :)
nicely framed, stephanie. can't imagine what would make this better, except to have had a person sitting on one of the benches, waiting and watching. (i carry around a very compact table-top tripod that's 6.5" tall. from the ground, you get some pretty interesting perspectives, and, with a remote release, you can be your own model...). all the same, good work, keep it up!
I think I would have stepped up in front of those benches and tree branches. The beautiful colors in the sky and the reflections on the ice are interesting enough. The foreground elements seem a bit like clutter to me.