Need help with a pic - blown highlights?

Last night I posted a waterfall pic in the gallery. It looked fine on my monitor at home and at work. However on two computers here at work, the lower fall is blown out completely. Also, a forum member has commented that it is a little blown on his monitor as well.

So, my question is what are you seeing? Does the lower fall look blown on your monitor (calibrated or not)? If so, to what degree? The original capture has no clipping, so pulling the post processing back a little is no problem; just don't know if I need to.

I'm using a 27" iMac at home and have had a problem in getting that thing calibrated. My prints have been coming out dark, so I adjusted the brightness on the monitor to compensate. I'm just curious to know if I've gone too far. Haven't printed this yet, so not sure how that will match up.

Thanks,

Bryan

Does not look blown out to me. Its white but there is texture in most if not all of it. I would not call it blown out at all.

FWIW-I thought I was a slacker using an uncalibrated monitor, so I borrowed a spider and did the calibration. I think my monitor looks far worse now. I also think a calibrated monitor is a Quixotic quest that can never be reached because of exactly the problem you describe.

Bryan, my monitor is calibrated but I'm past due for recalibration. The falls do look slightly (and I mean slightly) blown. The best part is you got it right in camera so if you decide to pull back the highlights you can. I like it as is but this might benefit from the highlights being pulled back just a bit.

A beauty of a falls that's for sure.

IMHO the very central part of the lower cascade is "blown", but this is a very small part of the image and along with Darren I see texture in most of the water area.....,,,however this does not detract from the image. Often in waterfalls pics you are willing to have a spot of blown highlights as long as the rest of the image looks ok, which is exactly the case here. If this bothers you you could try some local negative exposure or perhaps even a curves adjustment on just the water and see if you like that better. But I wouldn't change a thing except to make another trip to this nice area and look for more compositions on a beautiful waterfall!

Bryan, On my work monitor- the central part of the very bottom fall and right as it hits the water is blown. Not calibrated.

Bryan, on my 23" Apple Cinema Display there is shading in the falls before the water hits the pool, but the portion a the base of the pool is pure white. It's a great photo though.

Thanks everybody for the feedback. Interestingly enough, I went back and looked at the histogram in Lightroom and there is no evidence of clipping. Of course what matters is not the historgram data but the resulting image. Being that most visitors to my site will not have a calibrated monitor, I will reprocess the picture and pull back the highlights a little. Thanks again.