I like this very much as it is. I think, and I'm really just speculating, that some experimentation with camera placement and angle of view would pay off with this subject. As it is, the composition is really about the loops of rope immediately around the spools. At a guess, I think that a shot slightly farther back showing all of the base of the spools and more of the foreground rope and having the diagonal line meet the upper left corner of the image exactly might have been an interesting shot.