The horizon line is crooked, with the image tilting down to the right, creating the visual illusion that the water should all be running downhill...

Please straighten the horizon it will look so much better.

I have to agree with MossyB & friiskiwi, the shot would have a greater impact with the horizon fixed.

horizon is now ok. thanks for comants.

much better

Much improved, great photo!

Too dark, with too much dead space at the bottom.
This would be far more visually impressive if you cropped it so that the farmhouse occupied the majority of the picture plane, since the field is so dark, the right hand side so foggy, and the sky somewhat colorless.

I would just crop some of the field, I really like the fog and the blue sky above it.

I cropped it bit. I agree the dark was weighing it down a bit too much. hopefully this is better

yes, that helps

Nice picture, but a bit too "framed" by the stubble on both sides. A tighter crop, allowing the corn stalks to fill the picture plane without the stubble sides, would be a stronger visual image.

Totally agree.

It would look better if the horizon was even - it leans down to the left too much and is distracting from the focal point.

This was taken while driving, and we aren't allowed to edit for this contest so I didn't adjust it.

There are a lot of edits allowed, and straightening images and cropping is definitively allowed.
Easiest way to explain what you can do;
Just about anything that is applied to the whole image. e.g. you can desaturate by channels (remove all red, etc), but you can't desaturate part of an an image, by using masks etc.
Lately rules have also been changed to allow burn and dodge, which has of course been used in darkrooms forever.