A little bit about me,my first wife who sadly died 15 years ago was a professional photographer in the real sense, worked from leaving school for 16 years for the local top studio starting at the bottom and working up.Her knowledge i will admit was portrait and weddings with a little commercial thrown in,she made a very hard task master when i started in photography i can assure you i learnt the rules (i use the word rules as i cant think of any other)but after about 8 years i was losing interest and she ask why.
I explained to her that the pictures i was taking where earning her praise but i wasn't sure i liked them,that was the time my photography changed when she said i didnt any longer need to earn her praise because i knew what i was doing,she told me i could from that point ignore any of the so called rules because i had learnt them and would know what i was ignoring,thats why i try to use phrases like in my personnel opinion or others may think different or even why dont you try,i dont think i have ever used the phrase that is wrong.
Photography is at the end of the day a form of expression if we all express ourselves in the same way its a waste of effort,when you put pictures up for comment by allmeans ignore any advice if it stops you creating your image but take the advice on board so you know why your image is different.
Keep taking them and get some more full of the interest the lake has.
mike
