I totally agree with you, Phil. The old ferry bothers me too, and I think that the photo would have been much more effective with space between the two. Thanks for the frank comment.
I love the layered effect here -- the Chinese junk in the foreground, the old ferry in the middle ground and the abstracted city in the background work together to express the essence of Hong Kong harbor. One suggestion. Watch out for mergers -- if you had been able to shoot this image an instant earlier, or if you had move your camera to the left, you could have left space between the bow of the junk and the ferry boat, and that space would create tension within the negative space. As it stands here, the junk almost seems to be crashing in to the ferry. I call this a problem a merger, and mergers are avoided by either shifting vantage point, or, as in this case, choosing a different moment in time. As photographers, we must train our eye to see what is happening in all of the layers of an image simultaneously.
