What I like about this image is how out of place the dog is and how it throws a bit of surprise into the mix. Btw, the shot has not been cropped at all, this was the whole frame and it was taken specifically to capture the dog in the frame with the surfer in focus. Looking at it after the fact, I found that I like the balance between the clouds vs. the dog half with the paddle surfer between the two. But that's just me and the reason I posted it was to see if anyone liked the strange mix of the surfer vs. the dog. I guess on one hand I can say it works and on the other I can see perhaps that it doesn't work so well. But hey, that's what trial and error is about, eh?