It was still daylight at the time, so I was quite surprised how this came out.

It was taken with an old film camera a few years ago which I have recently scanned, hence the not so perfect quality.

If you look closely you can just see the big buddha in the distance.

I would feel the need to crop, to loose some of the peripheral shadow,

but then the diagonal trees will become more distracting...........

The silhouette of the buddha certainly adds to the atmosphere of the shot,

but in my book it does not quite come off.

I think it is as just great.

Great picture- the Buddha makes a big difference.

My amateur suggestion would be to rotate the image about one and a half or two degrees clockwise in photoshop, to make the horizon / waterline look level, and then crop it as little as possible to re-square the image.