Footsteps (Patreon)

I posted the first image of Poppy on the beach yesterday on Purpleport and someone - happens to be a retoucher 🤔- suggested taking out the footsteps that don‘t obviously belong to Poppy. So I suggested it to my retoucher and he did remove the footsteps - second image in this post - what do you think?  Does it make much of a difference? It probably is more impactful, isn’t it?

Now I also have loads of unedited images from that scene and I’m posting them to hear your views, if any. Do any of these stand out for you as worthy of retouching?  You can see what miracles Alex can do with the first one!