Cascade Run (+ RP)

Very nice mood to this image. The creek pulls you into the image and it has nice depth.  I have looked a this for a while and my eye tends to stop at the water in the foreground. It feels like the picture is in two halves. The foreground and then the background. I might be tempted to crop some off the bottom. As I look at it with a crop my eye seems to move better through the whole scene. Probably just my preference. It works either way.

Sweet pattern in the water, very well captured I say! I can see the crop that Richard talks about, but it works equally well for me like this. I like the symbolism of the snow in the top half turning into water in the bottom half. A good metaphor for this time of the year when the melting begins.

The flowlines coming out of the pool ae really effective.

Scott,
Very pretty image. Comp works well drawing the eye into the scene. I think this would also work very well rendered as B&W.

I think this works really well. A part of me would rather the cascade wasn't centered, but keeping the water at bottom was probably worth it. I would clone out the colored leaves in the cascade.

Scott, This is really nice. Your comp works very well for me and I really do enjoy the flowing streaks of water coming out the bottom of the frame. The snow adds such a nice touch to the trees and rock in upper part of the image. Cool shot!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Nice V flow from the bottom corners. Nice composition. Nice shot! 

The water flow draws me nicely into the scene and the freshly fallen snow finishes off the image for me, Scott. I can see the crop Richard is talking about, but I think I like this better.

Ed

Scott: Cropping some from the bottom was an immediate reaction for me and I think I'm going to stick to it. I do like your SS and the water treatment. Beautiful scene nicely rendered.>=))>

the movement in the water works nicely to pull one's eye in ... other than that, simple and sweet!

Thank you for the comments/suggestions. Here's a cropped foreground version. Better? I did not want to crop too much because I liked the flowing lines. 

And yesterday we set record high temps....  A fine view up this creek, Scott.  I like the strong sense of flow in the foreground, from the slow shutter, and  how it lead to that lovely little step falls and then back into the snowy woods.  An outstanding winter scene.  The repost adds a strong sense of "your are here", without changing the overall feeling.

Hi  Scott..       I like both versions.  It's  remarkable  how the crop  affects the scene ..      now   in the second version,  my eye is  more  pulled to  the falls  instead the flowing water.   beautifully composed  with excellent  color and  light in  both  images


Albert Darmo
Canada.

Scott,

Took a quick peek at the repost and for me I think you nailed it with that one.  The flow is great in the first, but I think if you were going to emphasize the flow, then maybe not so much background? or a crop from the top?  But even still the repost has great flow at the bottom and it seems with better detail cause it appears closer.

With the stream leading the eye deep in to the forest scene, this turns out to be an excellent winter landscape.

Lon