Dean M. Chriss
Photography
Dark Falls, Victoria, Australia
(Click image to enlarge)
Water in this waterfall flows over a dark burnt orange colored rock wall
that is largely covered with dark green mosses and algae. The water flow in
this photograph is low enough to see how the
rocks channel the water into thin rivulets that thread their way down the
wall. This is seen much more clearly in the larger image obtained by clicking
on the image above, or in the detail view of a smaller section of the same
waterfall here.
The photograph was captured on a bright partly cloudy day not long before
the scene would be ruined by direct sunlight. The bright but indirect light
allowed the very clear water to transmit some colors of the rocks and mosses over
which it flows. This is seen in the subtle green, bronze and rust color
casts. Between the roar of the water, my precarious position atop a boulder,
hunger, and considerable fatigue from hiking I did not notice this at the
scene. Weeks later while looking at the photograph on a color calibrated monitor I
thought these color casts were quite unique and abandoned my preconceived
notions of a black and white or split toned monochrome image.