9 - Wow. Beautiful pier, exquisitely captured. Love your nice straight lines. At first I wanted to see the sky hold some more interest, but I think it allows the pier to shine through. If anything, maybe a more horizontal crop/more width, but at this size you would likely lose too much. Changing anything about the crop/framing would just create 'another' (excellent) image.
OK, let me see...it looks like you used Neat Image, or some noise reduction. It has really taken away the grain of the wood which would have really added interest. It would have been better to do a layer of noise reduction, then mask it so you only smoothe out the sky or whatever you want smoothe selectively...overall, it's nice, but is a little to 'fake smoothe' for me 6