P3 - Exercise Painting from a photograph

Here I am painting from a photo which I felt comfortable with,  I have tried to keep the painting loose, like  most of my watercolours, and as such I think it makes it harder for the viewer to distinguish between a painting that has been done for life and one that has been developed from a photograph... no reason why the same artistic licence cannot be applied in both approaches.

The composition is more in keeping with the photograph than the colours, placing the tree just of centre with the middle ground running at a slight diagonal again avoiding the centre of the paper. The colours are slightly more washed out than the photograph could argue that this is a quality of watercolours (but i won't need to strengthen the watercolour mixture.

The light source is coming from behind the tree, which in terms of tone means I could have gone darker with the tree and foreground shadow.  That said I got to a point having added another wash of red and ultramarine blue to the shadows where I felt the picture was complete... all areas consistently painted..satisfied with the definition in the tree and middle-ground.