Stills

I like the V of the saplings/branches echoing the bank and wall. It accentuates the lead into the image.

Again I find this an evocative image which brings to mind long walks. I would plod through this with my walking boots, Nora would attempt to pick her way round to avoid any possibility of wet feet. Mark you I have been caught out in the New Forest where the bed of the stream looked like 'solid' gravel but was actually stones on soft mud!

How many counties of the UK could this image be in?
 

Beautiful -- I wish to be there. This one offers no wall of resistance, but invites me right in -- I'm even able to skip right over that fence and into the woods beyond.

The moss is especially attractive to me.
 

I believe that it was nature that placed those branches like that (and not you!) but they look just a little bit too mannered and divert from that amazing top sliver of old bracken beyond the trees. The stream would have been plenty enough to lead in. But the branches were there so difficult to avoid them: the intersection with the tree to the right is quite jarring. Everything apart from the branches is excellent.

Rex asks about counties: I could just imagine this in some Western parts of the UK.

Is it just me that keeps seeing a panda towards the top left?
 

Robert - this is about as clean as a European stream gets. Behind the camera is a 2000 ft ascent. I don't suppose this stream starts very high because there is no sign of flash flooding. Probably this is from a spring a hundred metres or so up.

Rex - almost any part of the UK with hills? The major difference being that this path has ten such streams and no people. I think it has to be a hill stream because of the clean stream bed. This water flows strong and constant all year.

Christina - 'the woods beyond' are in fact just a thin screen for the main river (the one that has appeared in my recent Stills photos). John is correct in seeing the old bracken beyond as the land goes up the other side of the valley.

John - I wish you hadn't mentioned the panda! Oh, and yes, it was nature.
 

'Hopefully this is a clean stream because it makes me thirsty.'

Definitely thirsty, and yes, that is clearly a panda. Don't let the Chinese government find out.

I wonder what you think is not 'quite technically there' about this?
 

I wonder what you think is not 'quite technically there' about this?

Matt - the compression for the web hides the fact that the bright spot in the soft rush top centre is over-exposed. There is actually some featureless paperbase there in a bigger version and there is quite a large area which looks ugly.

Nothing that couldn't be retouched if the client had a big enough budget :-)
 

Im in agreement, a nice compositon. I like the transition of the wide stream to the narrow one at the top concurrent with the move from lush greens to the dried tan weeded section. That fence provides an interesting point of change in the look of the landscape.

And that limb in the foreground takes you right to that fence and transition, such that it seems to say "look here".
 

That 'snow' panda...?

It's strange how those triangular branches try and stop you from exploring what's behind them. Though the left hand bank is just as interesting is as if they don't want you to find something. Another plus on this is how the apex of those same branches do not hit the gap in the fence where the water 'escapes'.