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+1 @ Keith comp with tree branch breaking the falls line.
It's just a small nit, so if it alters the comp too much elsewhere, it can be a necessary nit @ choose your poison(s). It doesn't detract too much from the overall vibe, just something that might give it an even stronger spatial relationship, imo.
As a former slide shooter ... it was all "in camera" ... all the time. There was no "photo finishing", nor post (capture) production photoshop. That's not to suggest that our images should always be void of any post capture work, but as mentioned the better we get it in camera, the better we can finish it. There's a bit of a Yin-Yang relationship (i.e. more camera = less pp vs. less camera = more pp) involved on one hand, and a cause-effect relationship on the other hand (i.e. better camera = better finishing / more creativity options). So to that end, it is good (and pertinent) to learn PP skills, but not to lean on them too strongly such that they supplant good camera / lighting efforts.
They are parallel things to learn, so some days you'll grow more on the camera / lighting side, other days, you'll grow more on the PP side. But, as Greg mentioned, you can simply go with jpg (kinda like shooting chromes @ standard development only) to allow your emphasis to be on the camera / light (for now). I remember shooting chromes and the darkroom guys saying how great it was to have creative liberty in the darkroom. At the time, all I could think of was "Yuck, what a pain in the butt. If those guys got it right in camera, they wouldn't have to do all that." Okay, a bit naive in my youth ... but, we all start somewhere. 
Actually, I switched to shooting chromes because my creativity in camera kept getting messed up by the darkroom guys always trying to "normalize" it when I was shooting negatives. 
Capture, Correction and Creativity.
Capture is all about in camera and can contain Correction (prevention) and/or Creativity
Post-Capture affords additional opportunity for Correction and Creativity. Sometimes we have an opportunity for another Capture (i.e. re-shoot), but that isn't always the case as some moments are never repeated, while others are simply not pragmatic to return to.
How much of the post-capture effort (correction / creative) you want to do, will dictate how much consideration you put into your capture efforts. Some folks find it preferable to correct or create in post, than to correct or create in capture. Others find it preferable to do so in camera first. Imo, the reality is that we learn to be skilled in each approach, as we don't always have the opportunity to control things as much as we would like. But, if you're Deming oriented, best you can in camera comes first, then you move on down the line to finish the best you can from there.
Kinda like the relationship between a good automotive body man and a good paint guy. Sometimes they are one in the same, sometimes they are not. Of course, we now get to be both photographer and lab tech for the capture and the finishing. But, there remains a process of one precedes the other and depending on how well things are done on the front end, will dictate on how much / little is necessary on the back end ... or how much liberty there is for expression to yield the finished product.
Either way, most paint folks don't care to paint over rust (i.e. the better we get it on the front end, the better it gets on the back end) ... although some of us do like to capture a little bit of it.
BTW, thanks. Glad you like the rework. Your capture was what made it possible, as it started in YOUR mind. 
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