I would suggest cropping up from the bottom to about midway on the small rock, you would not lose much of the water and the rock becomes much less distracting, the somewhat narrower format lends a to a feeling of movement. my opinon
First, try burning in the rock at lower left about half a stop, darkening it would stop your eye from being drawn to it as much. If you still don't like it use an adjustable arm easel and crop just the bottom of the image level to the top of the rock. I would keep the length as is giving more of a pano effect.
BTW, well seen, I like this a lot.
Thanks for the help! I'm hoping to print this Friday. Good old 20/20 hindsight - if I'd moved about a foot to the right, I could have gotten rid of the rock and still had all the cool icicles. Or at least tried to get the rocks closer to in focus. It might have been more like f22 or even f16, too - someday I'll get better about recording what I do. Ha.
First off I really like the photo.Since others are chiming in I will add my wooden nickels worth. If it were my negative, and I would be thrilled if it was, I would probably eliminate the lower 45%. Yup I would crop it to look more like a 6.5x12 pano.
Thanks, Eric! I really like some of the water, but I'm considering your crop suggestion. Thankfully, I was able to stay out of the water for this one, too.
Great picture, love the icicles, looks like my freezer (must defrost).
I agree with Rick a simple burning in of the rocks will fix them up. If I were to crop anything (and I don't think its really necessary), it would be a little off the top, this gives the water more impact. Anyway, sure you will work it out, hope you can show us what you come up with.
Love this, one of my first photos made with my first SLR was something like this but with lots of snow on the ground. I think with cropping, there are probably two or three images within this photograph.