Now the picture?
I really like the subject and technicaly I have no criticisms of what you have done. The image is intriguing, get's ones attention and then one is lured into a conditon of possiblities. When I'm that attracted to a photographm it's starting to work.
I'd have like to see some more framing of the steam and to not be robbed of where the wonderful curls of "smoke" (O.K. it's really steam, but that's not how I see it, genie's come from smoke, not steam!) that are ascending then cut off!
We need the last swirling formation to be surounded by space.
It would be nice to have something in the bacground, even faintly to give more depth to the image.
Still, as is, I'm impressed and would be even more so had I taken the picture myself. As I said before, Nikolai seems to gravitate towards fires, firing canons and smoke. For that reason he is good at these subjects and it's a pleasure that you share with us here!
Thanks,
Asher