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I agree with Rick.
In your image I think its more about where you attention is being drawn to.
A good photo composition I think, controls the viewers attention and draws it to the subject and points of interest. The rule of thirds is an attempt at stating that but I think the above statement is the basic on the subject. As its the senior basic I think that is why rule of thirds sometimes fails and sometimes works. Sometimes its controlling the person's attention and sometimes its not as other factors are pulling your attention in the image or you want it to look arty not necessarily what you see in nature. Then all bets are off but not controlling the attention of the viewer.
The great Italian Masters used geometric proportions in their artwork. Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa for example is full of geometric proportions - a lot of it is Fibonacci ratios of which the rule of thirds is an easy guide of but not quite on the money. 61.8% is on the money so is the reciprocal of 38.2. A third is 33.33 so its close. So that would be 3.3% sky and 61.8% foreground.
In your image you have the nice diagonal going on with the waterway and that guides attention quite well. When there is a diagonal structure present in an image I often try to make it go from corner to corner where I can or evenly on either side of the diagonal. That usually looks best.
Anyway that is my 2C. Art often looks best with common geometric proportions like the Golden Mean 1.618 or 38.2% or 61.8% or pi. Even stock markets tend to follow these proportions and lot of traders expect the market to stop or bounce a these proportions and they often do.
But geometric proportion here really just represents pleasing proportions. Some proportions just seem right and others clash against this sense.
Greg.
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