Christina's Lake

Always be ready. I was up at the Alligator Lake pavilion looking at the red-shoulder and red-tail hawks, taking casual shots,mainly watching others snap away, when this little girl ran out to the shore line. In my mind I immediately visualized Andrew Wyeths 1943 painting of Christina's World. It is a perhaps Wyeth's most famous painting of the crippled girl looking up the hill of the farm toward the barns.
In the first photograph, I cropped to the near horizon line of the original painting. I probably should have cropped the girl further to the left as well. In the second, which I originally on facebook tinted all the way through the clouds, I liked her stance. Here, I reworked it to leave the clouds alone and only tint the foreground a brown tone. I likewise used infrared, backing it off, to mute the bright red of her shirt.
In the third, it is as taken from the Canon S95.
I notice that I need to watch my placement of the horizon line, as I seem to like the 50/50 split in these.