perhaps my mistake has been to try to compose too far away, when my real interest was the bow, and the boat leaning against the tree. This is a tighter crop.
I like the detail in the boat and the tree, and the composition. I might try it with a little more contrast just to see what it looked like. Great as it is though.
Just for future reference, a "bough" is the limb of a tree. A "bow" is the front of a boat, or the knot in your shoelace, or a part of a violin. Nothing phonetic about the English language!