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Well, even if the man on the picture is not 100% (but close) in the rule of third, I still like it. Very good timing. I like how he is looking at his wet shoe. We have a nice diagonal line, which brings us to the subject. This is how our brain works. We travel along the lines with our eyes. Love the reflections. The things (like reflections) which repeat in the images tend to make a bigger statement. To be honest I would not crop it more, because then you will lose a part of bridge reflection which have a nice curve. I think it is good to know all the rules, but it is ok to brake them sometimes. You also have more subjects in the picture which are in the rule of third, like bridge for example.

I would like to know your thought on your own picture. What you like and what bothers you?

Usually you don’t won’t to choose too many main objects, because the viewer gets confused what you want to tell him with your photo. It is better to choose one and then build your story around it, supported by other objects. In the second picture it is clearly the men. Then I am looking at the picture, I am imagining the men walking home from work at the sunset after the rain. I can imaging what he is thinking after stepping by accident in the water. There is a story there.
In the first image, it looks like you were just taking picture of the sunset. And the man just depend to appeared in it by accident.