Karst Spring, Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada

I have mixed feelings about the downed trees in your image, and in waterfalls in general. In the last 5 decades many of the Appalachian Mountain Hemlock trees have died and most of the falls are “littered” with fallen hemlocks. My waterfall buddy hates them, and won’t even go to falls that have a lot of them. Personally I don’t really mind them too much, and what can you do about it anyway? If possible I’ll work them into the composition, and if that’s not possible, crop them out of the frame, or just go with the “it is what it is” flow.

Yeah, this spring has a lot of downed trees near it. Not sure why. It's at a pretty high elevation; perhaps the cool air slows decomposition? It's much too remote to be logging, and it's in a protected area anyway.