Fountain base in "Leon Doux" square.

I tryied to show the green taking over the base of the fountain.

Maybe another angle would have helped, wasn't easy as I wanted to

show the connection of the metal bars and the green. The line you see

is the flow of water falling from the fountain. As I don't have a

bigger telephoto (135mm top) I couldn't get closer without entering

into the fountain.

 

I am no scanning expert either, scanned on a Nikon LS-30. No digital

alterations or "autolevels".

I wasn't there but I would have changed the angle to show the water falling between the two bars. Right now it's hard to identify the line as water. Perhaps pulling back from the subject would have made it clearer.

I think , since you have already 2 planes at 90 degrees angle from each other (the bars and the wall), you should have your lens parallel to the wall, between the 2 bars - well, further, but at this level -, and go for a vertical composition. Why do so ? To simplify the composition. When you already have two planes at 90 degrees , you rarely want a different film plane or lens plane. Why vertical framing ? Because it seems to me that the horizontal line on the wall itself is already strong enough, without giving it 2 long parallels, which would be the top and bottom borders of an horizontal framing. You would rather have the viewer "guided" to the back wall from the front, slowly, meeting the water on the way, and for that purpose, the 2 bars will be perfect.

Finally, the water, imo, would better be sharp, frozen, so we can feel the freshness. That is debattable, obviously, but that's what I feel. At any rate, if you are not freezing the water - and here, I doubt you had enough light to do so anyway -, you should find the shutter speed that will at least allow us to really SEE the blurred water as water.

Finally, 2 important side comments:

1) I would never have shot this picture without a wonderful ray of sun coming sideways to enhance the textures. Without sun I feel it's a lost cause.

2) Sun would also have felt fresher, and would incidentally have allowed you to freeze the water for even more freshness.

Best regards.