They do go together without a doubt. But the graininess of this shot really bothers me. That might be what you were going for but for me personally, there are very few shots where graininess works and this is not one of them. The catching the duck in mid flight is excellent but it looks more like he's ready to land on land than water also. Picky, I know but since they are supposed to be together. A 5
I find it difficult to enjoy the excessive noise chosen (?) for this particular shot. While it would add some interest to a purely textural study or one concerned with instilling a (film-like) fleeting temporality (character portrait, journalism, possibly a candid, even a landscape, if dating it via effects would serve a purpose).
The interest here, however, lies likely stronger in the nature of flight, the details of markings, colour, pose etc, precisely those aspects which have been obscured. The inclusion of the second duck (in the water does stabilize the balance of tones within the image, but it does nothing for an easily achievable (and enjoyable) simplicity of composition, which we would have, if it were cloned out.
What remains, to me, is an image with delightful effects, textures and tones, if appiled to a more abstract (non-figurative, non-representational) piece than this one.
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