How would you crop it and why?

I don't know if this will get any interest but...often we don't have a chance to think ahead and just have to shoot fast to get the shot we want. Then later for printing perhaps, we're faced with cropping it to get it to a standard size. As in the case of this picture I took of two children playing on the side of the Nile.

I thought it might be interesting to present an image (such as this) and see how others would choose to crop it and why, for say an 11 X 14 print size.

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The red shirt initially pulls the eye, but human beings are genetically programmed to zero in on faces, so the face above the red shirt I would put at the 1/3 spot. One of the principles of good composition is that it causes the eye to move around the frame from the primary center of interest to secondary spots, thus creating a sense of dynamism. The eye goes from the red shirted girl to the second girl to the interesting reflections in the water.

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7X5.

Orientation for most electronic viewers (ratios may be different).

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Fits 5x7 and has rule of 3rds. Plus it eliminates the dead branch distraction.

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