I am a New England based landscape photographer with a passion spanning across the USA and over to Europe. My aim is to create images which exude a sense of tranquility and simplicity.

You certainly captured a lot of serenity in a landscape that is oven very rugged and dynamic. At first, glance, I wasn’t sure the centred shack worked, simply because there is so much other subject matter in the photo, and most of it is rather imbalanced. However, when I settled down and took it all in, it occurred to me that the centred shack actually balances all that other stuff. It’s our safe place, our visual respite apart from the rugged cliffs, the deep snow, the frigid water and the wide-open windy sky.
It works for me because for everything else in the frame that is off-center is balanced by some other off-center element. The rocks at lower left by the clouds on the horizon at right, the snow hump at lower right by the mountain ridge at the distant left, etc…
In this way, that little red shack provides both a sense of visual balance and imaginary balance from all of the other imperfect and evocative areas of the frame. And of course, the red contrasts nicely with the predominant cool and rather cold tones in the rest of the scene.
Living in Alaska, I know what it’s like to stand in the snow and cold as you gauge your scene, make those creative decisions and build your shot. I think you’ve done a nice job here and created an image that so well illustrates the mood of the scene that you were immersed in during those brief moments.