this is awesome. i really hope it hasn't been overlooked. i just got to it, and if i had to use one word, it would be 'spellbinding'. most excellent observation. hope this does well for you. good luck!
This is a serene and peaceful photo. Love the colors, reflections in the water, and the silhouetted bird and poles in the foreground. I also like that you framed the shot with the tree branches. I'm looking at it a second time now, and am bumping up the score more.
Beautiful scene, not quite beautifully photographed, to my eye; you could happily have taken it darker, which would have brought so much more intensity to those colours, and richness. That would also allow you to be rid of those overhanging leaves: framing this way is not bad as such, but in this image I would think that the pelican and the horizon line and the clouds and the reflections would be enough. Lots of good stuff here, though.