Some photographers enjoy working on waterfalls with a tripod, using filters to cut the light and slow shutter speeds to create a smooth, silky flow of water. I never carry a tripod for slow shutter work. Instead, I prefer to work on waterfalls in the opposite way – using fast shutter speeds to suspend the flow in a fragment of time, and creating form and shape in ways that express the power and energy of a nature. I made several hundred hand held images of Shoshone Falls, underexposing my photographs by two full stops, and spot metering on the sun splashed spots, causing the shadowy part of the flow to go dark. Later, in my post processing, I bring up the detail in those dark shadows, as I do here. This was my favorite image – my fast shutter speed of 1/640th of a second creates a lunging fringe of water that hurtles down upon the misty, brightly illuminated golden pool at the base of the image.