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Interesting and atmospheric.
However, can I suggest that you consider significantly cropping the image at the margins? You could lose a lost of the vegetation at the sides and top, and still retain enough to show the great variety of light/shade effects on the banks. I feel (this is only my personal opinion) that the wet brown bank in the right foreground is a little distracting, too; if you could crop the foreground stream up to that dark horizontal ripple as well, I feel it would benefit the overall effect.
Still, a delectable picture which I wish I had taken.
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You're welcome. I discovered a while ago that - for me, at least - taking a picture of a landscape I liked was very different from seeing it through my eyes. In particular, I found that I had to crop the view a LOT more tightly in the camera than what my eyes suggested would be effective.
As a fringe benefit, that made me look at landscapes generally with a more critical eye, compelling me to decide what about the scene were its most important and characteristic elements - then take a picture which showed only those elements. Easy to say (and fine in theory!) - not so easy to do in practice. But a useful discipline, anyway.
In your particular case, what struck me as important and most significant were two elements: (a) the glorious contrast of lights and darks in the greenery, and (b) the flow of the stream itself. Retaining enough of each of these to show them, but excluding the "irrelevant" excesses of both, would - in my personal opinion - make for a stronger picture.
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