the image is very left-heavy because of the hill and the wood in the foreground. the dead wood also pulls more (too much) attention than the more pleasing elements in the frame: the background mountains and the water (for me). and because of this choice in framing/subject, what is taking up most of your image is dead ugly foliage. so, if your subject was the dead wood, you could have either used a wider aperture to accentuate it at the same time as taking attention away from the foliage, or framed it differently. in the end i'm stuck trying to look at the water and those rocks peaking out of it.
