Originally Posted by
Mike Buckley
Yes, the light is great, but I also like the glorious, plain space at the top.
Everybody is rightfully explaining why the clumping of the saguaro cacti is so essential. I'll instead explain the corollary: I can guarantee that I would have painfully positioned myself to ensure that at least the middle cactus in the rear was separated from the other cacti. The resulting composition would have been both static and "set up." There is absolutely no doubt that, in my infinite wisdom, that is what I would have done.
I like Geoff's idea of cropping to reduce the foreground element by about half. The importance of doing that is to handle the problematic cactus and strong shadow in the lower left corner.