Cropping the triptych

[SmartWombat]

Pure serendipity, but I find most of my favourite photos come from spotting something and shooting (not quite from the hip!) while I'm out and about.

Having spotted this family by the fountain taking their own photo on the cellphone, and risked it (at 1/3 f11 64iso) under mall lighting to blur the water, I now have a problem cropping it.

From the original I thought there was too much background of the shops in the mall, so I removed that.
I toyed with cropping at the bottom too, but then you don't see the bubbles in the water in the fountain and that makes working out that it IS water in a fountain a little harder. I didn't want it that abstract, having learned from my Bentley picture.

I tried cropping on the right, removing the stonework and leaving 3 "panes" in the photo with the children in. I reckon it almost works.

Then I tried using the stonework on the right and cropping out the girl in blue, and I think that is possibly the best.

But on the other hand I like the height of the 2 people leading your eye into the omage from left to right, with the boy facing right to left to send you back again ... then again I argued the gap between the streams in the fountain obscured her too much, so the girl in the blue went.

My indecision is final !!

Now then, you outnumber me, and I reckon there are more and better alternative compositions to be extracted from the original.

So I'll throw this one open
Which of my attempts is best, and what's your alternative