Tangled Run

Tangled Run, Olympic Peninsula, Washington – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

Tangled Run, Olympic Peninsula, Washington – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

This is an unframed, limited edition collection landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

On tripod, Canon 5DMk2, 21mm, F14, 1 second, ISO 100, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

I had walked about two hours into this forest in western Washington, when I heard the familiar rushing sound of a waterfall in the distance. I wasn’t surprised by the amount of rain in the area really, but I was keen to find the source. I got back the walking track and realised it was beneath me somewhere. I was led down a path until I hit a small log bridge. There it was. I no know it as Sol Duc falls. I found a way to scramble to the other side of the rush ato get up close to the actual cavern it was pouring into. I sat on the edge and hung my feet in the water and wedged my tripod into the grooves of the rocks. The view was one thing, but the noise, was deafening. I was awe.

Tangled Run, Olympic Peninsula, Washington – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

Waterfalls are so much fun to capture. Always mind your health and safety first, but if you have the chance to (safely), put your viewer in the waterfall, why not try? A super wide angle lens will mean you may have to risk danger, so don’t go too far. A general wide angle lens should give you enough feeling of being close to the falls, especially if you catch a run of water, passing from a bottom corner up into the frame. This will lead the eye into the shot and keep your view mesmerised on the flow of the falls.