Hey Andrea,
Oval - Striking image. The light, the dark, the texture. Add to that, that it is w=something out of the ordinary.
Gate (reshoot) -
What do you mean IF the world was flat? Anyway, everyone knows that at the edges of the world there is a huge ice wall keeping everything in!!!
It does make you wonder what on earth is the other side of the gate, and great to see some blue
Straight - That's the sort of image that make you wonder how it was captured. It seems to be from directly above, which would involve being in the water? But the lack of ripples says you weren't. I'm guessing either from a walkway above, or taken at an angle and corrected in pp.
Well taken and
for making us think about it.