I don't know much about adding text to a photo beyond what is possible with the "text" icon in PS. There are some basic parameters that I can easily apply but more complex print is not something that I've investigated. Perhaps some day I will. A a general rule, keeping the text clearly visible but not in competition with the image might be a good approach.
The more distance framing of the rapids provides context but I don't believe that context is imperative in this case. The cropped shot with additional vignette is the most dramatic; almost prehistoric, in that there is no intrusion by more pedestrian context like a managed forest, trail, made-made structure or anything more ordinary to mitigate the tension. Once you eliminate more familiar data in the periphery of the photo you are left with the full-frontal impact of the rushing torrent and that borders on the sublime. The sublime is often frightening, chilling and foreboding. There certainly is an artist within you just waiting to explode, but that would be abstract art.
The shot with the boosted colour, where there is colour, makes the image warmer and friendlier. Warm yellow and ruddy colours within a bleak snow scape suggests human presence; ostensibly a lit cabin window, or warm-yellow porch light, but this can be extended to include these same warm colours where they exist naturally, such as the red of dogwood. Even chimney smoke warms the image even though no warm colours are implicated in that kind of photo magic. It merely remains propitious by the power of suggestion. A painter might try all of these things as well as putting a person on the porch looking out onto the frozen expanse.
