This is a nice effort. The tree is clearly in the good health; I'm impressed to see a boxwood doing so well in the shallow pot (hopefully this is not simply a recent repot; I've seen kingsville killed by repotting too shallow), and I like the care that has been taken with presentation. I do have a couple of suggestions for improvement, too. For me, a spreading oak tells a story of branches twisting for light and battling against gravity . Much as Pootsie said, that straight branch in the center ruins that particular story for me. Similarly, the slightly over-enthusiastic pruning in the front, along the trunk line makes it seem rather like the "visibile man" at the science museum, with its guts opened up for viewing.
A comment on the photography: By shooting from very close with a wide-angle lens, we've got tremendous distortion, making the rectangular surface stand appear almost oval.
Try shooting from much further back, with a longer lens, so that parallel lines in the composition appear parallel, and straight lines appear straight. See
http://octavia.zoology.washington.e...aphy/depth.html
Best regards,
Carl