This was my back yard after an ice storm. That is my daughter in the picture and yes, I know she is smiling. Those huge tree branches, suprisingly, didn't even touch the swing set. (Two smaller branches on each side of the slide supported the weight of the large branch.) Anyway, it was hard to get a pic of her NOT smiling - she (and my other kids, and their friends) loved having that branch there to climb on. They were a little disappointed when we had the mess cleaned up.
Gosh, I don't know about this shot at all. It looks like a snapshot, but then it's too well composed for that. Like the contrast of the lines of the swing and slide with the broken tree, like the angle. Everything slightly 'wrong' by the accepted 'rules', but it works. i bet this is one of those shots that you really like and can't quite work out why. Or maybe I'm under-estimating you.