Paradise challenge July 2010

The challenge this week at Digital Whispers was to produce an image from a photo provided of waterfalls.  I don't think everyone's idea of paradise would be to go swimming with a water rat, but they are really cute. I sometimes catch a glimpse of them on the English canals.
Here is the image I created.

This is the image I used. I also used a plugin filter to create the water ripples.

I also entered another Digital Whispers Dark challenge.  This was a difficult one.  We had to try to get the subject's hair to merge with the tree roots. Both images were provided.