there is something so allegorically or metaphorically rich about leaning over a lake and reaching within it, touching one's own reflection. You have just the essentials here. Perhaps too much detail on the shore? I'm not sure. You caught the ripples, though. That is essential. 7
This is quite lovely. I think it suffers from a bit of what I'm going to call "under-effect" that I suspect is probably the result of somewhat less-than-striking composition. The colors of the water and the mud on the shore being essentially the same has a lot to do with this, I suspect. If I were you, I would draw greater attention to the leopard's (is that what atht is?) colors by experimenting with greater saturation of the subject and some selective desaturation of the surrounding environment. That, I suspect, could take this lovely composition and turn it into something truly fabulous. 6 from me.