The shot is just after getting over the log jam in the stream.
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And I will say despite Lik’s flowery description of the circumstances and ...
I got an ok shot of it, one of my better images from last year, but nothing like his ..
At a year's offset to your post, though less tardy to this thread's latest, I'm finding it a bit of a puzzle to put your two (i.e., yours & Lik's) images together as the same place --there are the similar things but then some differences I'm trying to resolve. IMO, Lik was shooting a significant telephoto way behind your PoV --as evidenced by the small tree in upper-center which in your image is fully visible just BELOW a diagonally sloping (downwards rightwards) fallen tree but in his is seen above it, and another diagonally sloping (single or pair, resp.) tree(s) lie above and much closer in his image. Yeah, maybe different trees (fallen), though that at the water's surface/bottom looks too much the same. And in Lik's image, just behind the center falls is a rock wall convex rightwards which I can't find at all in yours --and so guess that you were at it, with a much wider lens!?
That said, on balance, I might favor your shot for the visible rocky creek bottom, the neat curving broad lines of light ON the water, and nice light (light vs. dark) and more color in all the foliage (vs. Lik's more universal green) --w/o disliking Lik's, but I think you got a better shot.
And, frankly, also considering Lik's image, I'm skeptical about his description of conditions --of all this mist & rain : looks a pretty clear/clean air he's in, AND given notes of how things line up and so on, that he might be well above the water?!
Try matching the rock --which is less movable/changing than flora(!

)--; it's hard to match things unless one puts Lik way back so that much of what he shows was at/behind you (such as the convex-rightward wall center, the large opening/widening w/falls in his right near-ground). Now, I believe that Gursky, and --in photo-realist painting-- Estes are known to sometimes supplement reality, but ... !?
--dl*
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