Waterfall Abstract 1

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 6, 2015389 views8 comments

A shot of Lower Twin Falls near Northbend WA taken in 2013. This is about a twenty foot section of this difficult to shoot waterfall. Compositions of the entire waterfall are hard to find without getting in the river which would require a long wade through some fairly treacherous water so I settled for this abstract. Not completely happy with the water along the left edge but a crop doesn't seem to work for me and a wider composition would bring in some foliage which I didn't want...it seemed less of an abstract. Thanks for looking.

70mm
f18 @ 0.8 sec
ISO 100

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on December 6, 2015 at 3:41 PM

A lot of tension in this yin-yang abstract. I like it! laugh

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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on December 6, 2015 at 7:17 PM

Nice abstract, Bruce. The water looks great, and the details in the rock face are excellent. I like how the lines of the water and rock strata converge downward, which adds to the sense of flow.

--P

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Comment posted by gary phillips on December 7, 2015 at 2:11 AM

This is pretty trippy, Bruce. Love the ribbons of water against the hard stone. Very cool abstract.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on December 7, 2015 at 10:08 AM

I like Phil's description, a lot of tension. Cool mind-bending abstract. Well done.

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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on December 7, 2015 at 11:09 AM

This makes me look at the picture for a long time, puzzling about what I am looking at. Very nice abstract take on this, I like it!

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on December 7, 2015 at 11:15 AM

What an interesting shot this is, Bruce. I think it worked out really nice and was excellent vision on your part.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Ana on December 7, 2015 at 4:20 PM

I really like this abstract. The contrast of the white water and dark rock work really well together. Nice choice of shutter speed. I know you said you couldn't go wider, but I do wonder what a more vertical composition would do.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on December 8, 2015 at 12:07 AM

Bruce,

I find the ribbons of water to be fascinating! The ribbon of water has a fiberous or cotton-spinning, fiberglass look and feel to it. I'd say with maybe 1/2 or less of the rock on the right, would turn this even more abstract; although as presented there's a bit more context. Either way, I'm really enjoying this capture. Well seen and executed!

Lon

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