I hope you will take my comments as a learning experience.

You have attempted to be creative with the angle you chose to shoot from, and I compliment you for the effort.

But the camera settings have created a very narrow depth of field.

This appears to be a low light situation, so you likely opened up your f-stop all the way to try to take advantage of the available light on your subject.

A faster shutter speed would have rendered a crisper water shot. A narrower f-stop starting at around 8 and going higher would increase the depth of field adding to more of the shot being in focus.

With the available light in this setting, you would need to increase the ISO setting, but some cameras will throw way too much grain or noise into a shot but jacking up the ISO too high.

You don't mention what equipment and settings weee used to capture this shot.

Sometimes using a flash will work to your advantage. By setting the flash at about 45°, you can shed some light on the surrounding background without blowing out the highlights in the flowing water.

A good photographer takes a picture in a fully equipped studio with pro strobes and a high end camera.
A journalistic style shooter take a great portrait of a lady with great bokeh in the background.
A photographer shoots a classic approach to a wedding. Setup group shots. A pic of the wedding cake.
A photographer shoot a wedding in a documentary journalistic style recording what he sees as it happens.
Imagery and concepts are subjective. I assume if you get paid a dollar that makes you a pro. Ok.