Need some help with choice of photo for calendar...

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I need to finalise the yearly calendar I do for family and friends and have a choice to make with the September entry. I am down to 2 photos of the same view, but from very slightly different angles and one zoomed in, the other zoomed out. Both have good and bad points and I could really do with some assistance. I suspect my preference is not what will work best on the calendar (black background).
I prefer one version of a view and my OH prefers the other... He is away from home again so we can't discuss it, so I thought I might put it to a general vote... Any thoughts please? They are both of Loch Eriboll with Ben Hope (hopefully) in the background. The best option for telling them apart is probably to say with fence or without fence...

PS - don't worry about a domestic - he's away from home yet again so I can hold his bikes to ransom!

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Even though the fence has 'interest' I find it distracting... so it's without for me

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

They are both of Loch Eriboll with Ben Hope (hopefully) in the background.

Can you not see the mountain? Haha.

It is Ben Hope.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The bottom one btw

 

[betty swollocks]

In my opinion, they're both very beautiful: equally so, but also conventionally so.
Can you not play around with your cropping tool?
Maybe a zoom in of the clouds shrouding the tip of the mountain??

 

[welsh dragon]

Top one

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Without fence for me

 

[Arch]

Without fence.

 

[biggs682]

needs some highland cattle

 

[surfdude]

top one as you can see the heather better

 

[Fnaar]

Yup, no fence. Gives more of a sense of wild.

 

[Spinney]

The fence seems to cut us off from the view - it's a barrier.
And the blue of the loch is so gorgeous that it's a shame to have the loch as small as it is in the bottom one.

As you will have gathered, the top one....!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Oh, the reason I picked the bottom one is cos that's what it looks like - the fence is more "real"

 

[LimeBurn]

Bottom one for me, like the foreground of the fence as its a little more interesting.

 

[snorri]

The pic with the fence and change the photo title to 'Loch Eriboll'