When I had my Bronica the film backs were about $250 each, I had 3 of them, my wife changed film for me when things got busy.

I suspect the first person to make a milky flowing water scene was someone with his camera loaded with ASA 25 film in a dark area at dusk. He had to make a 12 second exposure to capture what he saw and came up with something no one had ever seen before. It may have been an eureka moment.
I like both milky and normal, as others have said it depends of the rest of the picture.

The OP said "I prefer photos as the eye perceives them". At what shutter speed does the same as how the eye perceives it?
On the picture you can see drops of water but does the eye see them the same? I would say the exposure time on the picture should be a bit longer to allow the dropping water to elongatate just a bit to how we may actually see it.

It would be a good experiment to make exposures starting at multiple seconds to hundreths of seconds. Then we can figure out what we capture on a picture what we see with our eyes.

Love the hawk. I do not understand the title, Redtail with Grasshopper? Where is the grasshopper?

OK I think I see grasshopper legs in the hawks beak.

They deserve a chuckle.

I am clueless. Strange to say the least.
Bubbles of some sort under some ice.

I think the first picture is very impressive. The wings, his talons, the splash. It says a lot.
Very nice..

When out of focus is cool. Simple and to the out of focus point.

That is one funny A _ _ bit he did!

You are mixing a very pretty face with a tornado in the background. Unique.

What is making the splash in pic #2 ?
Nice sweet light.

Walmart does not do a bad job.

There are fences and there are walls. Fences keep things of certain sizes in or out and walls are solid nothing goes through.

What size prints do you need? When I take pictures of Santa with dogs and cats or with the Easter bunny with the dogs and cats at the animal shelter they use Canon Selphy photo printers. The pictures are really good for a small printer. The prints are 4x6. They have 3 of the printers, 2 hooked up ready to print and one for backup.
Just a thought.

The fence

One from Pa.

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