Spring Mountain Creek, Napa

You have a nice bold image here, with great color, but to me the angle is wrong. It looks way to high, like you walked down a just shot from the bank. I can see what you were going for, and what you were trying to get, and you did, just at to high of an angle to me. Those trees covered in moss are great, I'd just try to get lower and use them to frame the stream. Just another point of view. Beautiful place.

Kenneth, Good point, but I had no other choice, and I tried, as I was standing on a bank that forced me to characterize this choice. Had I moved in to get lower, I would have had to cut out the two trees that had the green moss on it, that happens to make the shot. Behind me was a bank with more woods and shrubs. I used a 75mm lens that caught the symmetry of the meandering creek. A 45mm lens would have included sky that would have broken up, or bled off a corner, that would have been a deal breaker, and a distraction. As you know sometimes you take what you can get, at the same time maximizing the scene to adhere to keeping the eye contained in the scene. Basically I wanted to save the moss covered roots on the ground, and keep color contrast with the green and red. That red and green wouldn't have happened had it not been soaking wet in there, and it was dark, but the light was somehow providing a glow. Also the light was changing. Thank you for your interest, and comment.

Fair enough. Then it's obvious you did the best you could with what you had. Nice.

Well I'm certainly happy about the angle. Another approach might qualify as a variant but in no way better. These relationships are fully satisfying. Lower and you wouldn't have the wide body of the creek to compete with the strong green and it would have become more about only the trees and less about the location.