Gregg,
The light on the scene is captured wonderfully. Compositionally, the bottom and top of the image feel to me to be two images. It helps to create visual tension...and contributes to the vertigo feeling. I just don't know if that is what you are after. A crop as Merg suggests allows the light on the polished foreground rock to work with the flow of the water. Quite a different image.
Covid has taken me out for the rest of the month -- won't be able to travel north for your show.
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
Thanks for the comments, Vaughn, and sorry about the covid diagnosis. I've dodged the bullet so far, but figure the time will come...
Silver falls, Saint John, NB, Canada.
The top of the waterfalls by T. Chabry, on Flickr
Thanks
Yes, the print has a good deal more tonality than I can manage to extract from the scan.
High Force is a pig to photograph, the chasm is deep, the rocks are a very dark colour particularly when wet and the only real way of getting light down in to the waterfall and chasm is to photograph the place at or around midday a few weeks either side to the summer solstice - everything a landscape photographer is told to avoid.
Martin
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