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Another nice view of this falls. Good stuff here, and like you have those downed trees to add to the appealing view. I feel this 1s works so wonderfully here, whereas the 1/4s works perfectly in the other one. I believe this is due to two things. Between these, you are much closer to the more energetic viewpoint of the other one. Not so calm and soothing was it, falls in your face and ears? Second attribute of the in-your-face view is that there would have been, to my sensibility, an incongruous, unnatural and unpleasing discrepancy between the detail and texture of the moss on rocks and the detail of the foliage, which are complemented with the detailed threads of water. If those rocks were smooth, then maybe, only just, would a longer shutter speed have worked for me. When i did the falling waters falls, i lugged all the 8x10 kit halfway up a mountain and didn't have the luxury of "bracketing" the shutter speed to get the right "tuning" for each falls, having only 5 film holders with me. I would have like to do that, and it is a miracle those images came out good enough to print anyway. I chose the middle of the bracket range i would have considered, which was the only decision i knew to make.

I wish the trees didn't point out the side of the frame on the left, but it just wouldn't listen when I asked it to move. I have a roll in the soup as of this writing that will be the much more serene movement of water & carpets of thick moss over a creek bed. The waterfall was the first roll I couldn't wait to dev. 'Had 6 shots taken & developed anyway.
I'll have to do some more work on moving water to get the flow effects I want reliably.

Nice one. That tree doesn't particularly bother me, the two trunks sort of frame the view as it were. There are so many interesting "sub-sections" of cascades there I could probably make Kodak some money hanging out there trying to zero in on assorted details!

DWT, Thank You. I was trying for the framing but got nervous about the left tree. It seems we both live in areas just dripping (literally in my case) with compositions. Most folks don't like this much wet, but it gives us the 1,000 shades of green.