Comparing Two Photos

Look at this, my second post in one week! I know this is a little late, but better late than never right!
I compared the two photos by Thomas Joshua Cooper and Ansel Adams and although they are both taken of waterfalls ( i believe) each is taken in a way that you get a very different feel from both of them. In Cooper's photo, there is more of a focal point of a part of the water in comparison with Adam's who gives you the full out landscape view of the whole thing. Cooper's gives me more of a mysterious feeling as to what it is that is entwining with the water at the bottom of the photo. It just has a more eerie feeling. In Adam's photo, there is more of a calm feeling of "oh, look at the nice waterfall." It is clear what the picture is when you look at Adam's photo, but in Cooper's you don't know exactly what to make of it all. In comparing the two, you can imagine that Cooper's was a waterfall, but if you were simply to look at Cooper's photo apart from the other.. one might think that was a cloud of smoke, or mist.
Overall, I find it intriguing how taking pictures from different angles and focuses can give you such a different feeling of the same content.