There’s a restaurant in Bloomington, Indiana called Mother Bear’s Pizza. Me and my family go to eat there at least once whenever we visit. The place has been around for a while. My mother worked there when she was in college, and my aunt, uncle, and cousins regularly went there for their whole lives. It’s a pretty important place to us. It has the feel of a place significant to the local culture rather than a chain restaurant. They actually allow people to write things on the walls. You can imagine what that must look like after decades. It feels like it contributes to the “soul” of the area.
If you find something exciting about a scene try to convey that through the photo, hard to decipher at first, depth and mystery, moments create stories
Rules are guiding principles, it’s not required to rigidly follow these rules, they’re just tools.
Take account of what can be left out of the photo
Use leading lines moving toward the central subject
I’d try framing things a little more, finding some consistency (or the opposite if it would look good) in the colors in the shot, and in the event there exist leading lines, I’d utilize them to point to a particular place.