It is indeed, a very tranquil scene. I like the idea of replacing the background trees on the left half of the image. I'd have liked it more if the replacement had not led to repeating the same pattern of trees four times across the image.   Posted: 09/01/2023 19:17:01

Admittedly, I'm not sure how to respond when you do not submit a monotone image, Sunil!

The work you have put into it already is fantastic ... as Robert mentioned, the repetition of the tree pattern is notable.

Your comment on another cropping plan is also what I thought initially when I looked at it.

Here, I took your original, cropped it to primarily show the horse and stream, tweaked color, contrast, dehaze, etc., and ran it through Topaz Photo AI. I left the far shore primarily alone and left a little bit of the other "stuff" in the top of the crop as it felt to me as though it offered the image of a camp setup on the far shore and that the horse is facing toward its camp.   Posted: 09/02/2023 18:18:24

Nice image. The repeating tree pattern got my attention. I would consider going and taking a photo from the same spot at a different time of day and use that for the background rather than cloning the trees.   Posted: 09/04/2023 19:57:07

I really liked this image. I cropped to place the horse in the lower right third of the overall image to try to fill the frame with more of the horse. I did apply NIK ColorEfex 5 Detail Extractor to get more detail in the saddle and the horse.   Posted: 09/11/2023 14:06:30

Sunil,

I love the scene. There are a couple of bright rocks along the borders, and I would darken them, so our eye does not keep traveling to the light rocks.

I particularly like Ken's crop, although I recommend you watch the bright rocks on the edge.

So glad you took this out of the "reject" pile, its one of my favorites! And delighted you left it in color, as the sunlight through the trees and warmth of the horse against the cold rocks and water is beautiful.   Posted: 09/12/2023 12:46:19

A wonderful image and a wonderful conversion from the original. But, I feel some can be cropped off the right side. In my revision I've kept the horizontal format but cropped some off the top of the image as well as from the right side. To me I feel the composition works better when the horse is in one of the golden mean 1/3 points.   Posted: 09/14/2023 06:26:09

Reprocessed from the start, did not edit background trees much and only part of the lens flares edited.   Posted: 09/18/2023 19:56:52