After looking at it, I felt that it still wasn’t complete. It seemed too much like pictures just stamped onto a gradient but at the same time, I liked the reasoning behind my choices. Because they looked like just moments stamped onto a gradient, I considered going back to my initial idea of separating them into three compositions as a set which gave me the idea to try framing the composition. The point of framing it was that it would seem like they were moments that were captured and preserved intentionally rather than 3 moments in time just stuck together. I was a lot happier with the result after I had added the frame and also decided to remove the necklace in the center because it made for too many elements in the composition and because it was drawing attention to it.

Here is my final composition again: