New Zealand Woodland Stream
by Joan Carroll
Title
New Zealand Woodland Stream
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
My hiking book called it “Fantail Falls’ unnamed neighbor”, an “elegant waterfall spilling from a sky-scraping notch into an achingly blue pool”. Who wouldn’t want to go?! Well, my husband for one. So I left him on the river bank and said “I’ll be back in 20 minutes”. First, I had to ford the Haast river, which was not too deep but very swiftly flowing. I admit I had second thoughts, mostly for my camera if I fell. Then there was some rock hopping to get to the stream that was the outflow of the waterfall. I disappeared from my husband’s sight and continued to rock hop up the stream. I left the hiking book in the car so I forgot how far I had to go. Later on I read “in 100 m the walls begin their squeeze and in just a few more minutes…you’ll come to an elegant waterfall…” I think I got to the point, shown here, where the walls began their squeeze! There wasn’t any room on my side of the stream to proceed further and no obvious path higher up the bank. The stream was pretty swiftly flowing and I wasn’t sure I wanted to test my luck. I knew if I wasn’t back in 20 minutes, give or take a minute, my husband would activate some sort of emergency plan so there wasn’t time to search for a path! And I definitely didn’t want to fall, as I was completely out of sight of everyone on the other side of the river. So…here is the small river cascading over rocks, downstream from an elegant waterfall which I only saw in the tiniest of glimpses through the trees! Sometimes, as they say, discretion is the better part of valor!
FEATURED PHOTO, Arts Fantastic World group, 1/13/18
FEATURED PHOTO, Lady Photographers And Artists group, 1/12/18
FEATURED PHOTO, Art For Landscape Photography Only group, 1/9/18
Joan carroll, waterfalls, fantail, unnamed, falls, cascade, rocks, rocky, flowing, forest
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January 9th, 2018
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