Alligator w/Reflection

This image works well for me, bringing me back to view more than once.  Yet, I am having a bit of a time isolating what I like best and what might be different.  Somehow I believe this is not really about the reflection and I think the reflection is a minor element.  I very much like your mood established with excellent processing choices, giving a dramatic dark setting just enough texture and highlight detail.  In terms of comp, my personal very subjective  feeling is that you could make it stronger by eliminating part of the bottom (sorry, reflection) with a crop, keeping the nice circle on the water's surface on the left and perhaps eliminating the bright log reflection center.  That would make the nicely draping alligator tail disappear into the water leading to the lower right corner of the frame.  Such a crop would keep the eye studying the main subject and the fallen tree that serves as his perch.  All that said, with such a presentation, ideally, if what your are showing us  is already a crop,  one could have a wee bit more space restored on the left and if there are not unwanted elements, also on top to add to the interesting and mysterious feeling setting.  Finally, those are just reactions...I like this fine, just as posted!
 

Lon, thank you very much for all the feedback.. Most or all of your thoughts would be very easy to accomplish, as I have three other frames that are good, and they all have slightly different positions.  I picked this one because it had the best reflection.

This one only has a little cropped from the right for composition, though ideally for me the composition would have more room on the left, as you say, and at least one of the other frames has that room.

The top does have another branch which would probably be an unwanted element, and two of the frames have that in them.

So I'll think about this.  There's no reason I can't have more than one image.   Thanks again.

This is just choice Barbara. Love the leisurely lizard. Nice details in the shade too.