I like this, Ed. One thing you might play with is the relative brightness in the different parts of an image like this. My personal taste with a pathway like this is to have a little more light at the far end of the path than the near end, so the eye tends more to go that way. It looks like a beautiful garden and if I ever get down that way again, I’ll have to look it up.
Ed, a beautiful garden with a very inviting pathway. Dennis’s idea about lightening the end of the path is a good one - the subtle changes are definitely an improvement.
Nice image!