I love waterfalls. Just being around them. Something about the noise, the visual of moving water, and the fact that they often lead to nice pics — it all adds up to an experiences I seek out frequently.
I am blessed to be in a part of the world with many waterfalls. Some of them are big, others small. They all have something that draw me in.
This falls is the Perry Creek waterfalls near Cranbrook. Here’s a cleaner version of that sentence:
While some might dislike the scrawled initials on the rocks at right, I like them. They remind me of hieroglyphics—modern-day markings that, in their own way, seem to echo the purpose of ancient handprints and deer silhouettes left by Indigenous peoples in these same places thousands of years ago.
Simple acknowledgement that we were here…
This is the same negative printed using the historic Van Dyke process, which creates an image on paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, resulting in a deep brown tone. This process, also known as an argentotype, uses a combination of ferric salts and silver nitrate to produce a print similar in colour to the oil painting pigment "Van Dyke brown.” Toning with gold changes the brown to a neutral or even prurpleyg bluish grey…