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By a fortunate coincidence I found the two horse girls in front of

this famous waterfall. What I really like is the structure of the

falling water, which becomes particularly clear in this b&w version of

the photo

I remember seeing the un-cropped version of this a while ago and I remember that it was excellent and superior to the color version.  I think the un-cropped version of this is much better because it provides a greater sense of scale, a better composition, and more information.  In this cropped version the water appears frozen and it's difficult to understand what is going on. 

I love the way the water looks.  As if its been sculptured.  Kind regards

Fhanks for your comments.

Jeff, I thought that the cropped picture makes the scene a bit more mysterious, since the water flows just as a curtain, whose origine is nor obvious. The general question in representing flowing water is whether to take it sharp exhibiting all the structures but in a sense freezing it, or to soften it, which in the extreme case makes it look like a veil. I usually prefer the softened picture, particularly when the water is surrounded by sharp rigid structures, but in this case the horses would not have waited for me to put up my tripod. In addition in this case I do like the structures of the falling water

Terrific shot. Really gives a sense of scale and danger of this mighty waterfall, and you've rightly acknowledged that colour is unnecessary here. Far more powerful as B+W. I have a similar B+W image of Skogarfoss but a long exposure with a guy looking up at it.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16790920

Regards,

AW.

Great capture.