Hi Charlotte,
As a photographer we should be looking beyond what other people might see. In this particular instance you have taken a photograph of what anyone else would have noticed had they walked past this particular pond during the middle of the day... basically a big pond. As a result, the photograph is rather mundane.
There is an element to this photograph that is special though, it is those yellow trees. What I'm inclined to do with this photograph is to crop out the foreground; it is unnecessary.
The next thing that I would do is to increase the colour saturation and the contrast. In the Photoshop you can add an adjustment layer called Hue/Saturation and one feature many people may not notice is that in this panel you can select the colours you want to adjust. Click on Master and you can selectively adjust the reds, yellows, greens, cyans, blues and magentas. This makes it possible to increase the saturation in one colour while leaving the other colours alone.
In the example below I have increased the situation in the yellow; then I have used the curves adjustment to adjust the overall contrast of the image.
Hope this is a help, Image Doctor!
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