I've given it a 7 because I would have liked him to be a little further up in the frame. Not like mine, of course, I always cut their heads off because I am trying to stay with the rule of 3rds. Are you aware of the rule of 3rds? It doesn't have to be a strict rule but I think it does help.
And it's a shame he is squinting because of the sun. If you have a translucent umberella maybe that would help this. Although, who is going to take their translucent brolly to the beach lol.
Maybe one of those ordinary beach umbrella's would have helped.
I know about the rule but it does not work rightly in all situations. Recently i already discussed about it with Photo-John. It depends from particularities of a man eyes and his scanning. On the middle east we write from right-to-left and it is one reason of different impression from the picture.A picture is worth a thousand words .....
