AND THIS PICTURE IS?

This is a necessary and noisy function. The photo required a challenging shooting position. As usual, it was taken on my Rule Road property. It was only gently enhanced by Photoshop software.

Well, of course—it is a close-up view of the water flowing out of the pond’s spill pipe. The water is back lit by the early morning sun and the black, diagonal streaks are shadows of trees along the creek bank.

The blur in the flow is the result of using a slow shutter speed and the composition is further enhanced by the simple expedient of getting up close—hence the earlier comment about a “challenging shooting position”.

Splashing water and steep creek banks are problematic to expensive cameras and geriatric photographers.