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@danthro: Thanks. This was an almost accidental shot - I took the next shot first, then went for a walk over one bridge and back over another, and this was the reverse angle from the second bridge, an unexpectedly pleasing composition. The chain link fence inevitably intruded, but DOF worked to bokeh that away.

Interesting comment on sharpness. It may have something to do with the zoom: DOF is much greater at wide angles than at big zooms, but this is a 135mm (= 202 when adjusted by aminus 3) zoom. The ice photo was a tightly zoomed-in crop, not as sharp as I wanted it to be. A number of the Belgian shots (e.g. the swans) were taken at the full extension of 200 mm (300) where depth of field is very shallow; many of those shots were also cropped. And Belgium was misty to begin with...

This shot was taken on a clear day and resized straight from the camera without cropping or post-processing... The conditions worked in my favour: I can't claim any great improvement in technique.