Merry Christmas from the Critique Club!
I see that this is your first entry and you are a newly minted member. Welcome. :o)
I think this idea has potential, but even at its fullest may not have been a truly strikingly great photograph for this challenge, for a catalog cover that is. Maybe a phone book cover, or postcard shot, or city advertisement, but I'm not really sure how this could have been used in a catalog.
Your composition is fairly well done, resulting in generalized fore/middle/background elements, but the foreground is cluttered with random people that leave the foreground unbalanced. This is a little distracting. Also, the people are blocking the main subject, the water light show. Ultimately, the composition of the shot falls flat.
The colors are interesting, but they lack enough presence to really pop out of the picture, possibly some saturation adjustments could have helped with that. I ran it through Photoshop some and it did help very much. The picture is a little noisy; running it through a program like Neat-Image might help. (a free download is available)
This is a good choice of an interesting subject, combined with a bad choice of angles and positioning of the subject. This leads to an ultimately uninteresting composition. Something that helps me when shooting a well-known subject is to analyze other photos and thing about how that photographer accomplished the end Image. A quick Google search returned these: //www.pbase.com/terraxplorer/longwood_gardens&page=3 which might give you some ideas.
But remember, sometimes it is also VERY good to shoot something from and extremely different angle than has been seen before. With this, possibly very close and focusing on one of the fountainheads with the rest leading off and using some perspective may be just the ticket. Think, large to one side with fountains leading off to the distance. Not sure what the rules are, or how near you could get to do it though.
-Steve
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