We often must confront a waterfall head-on, but every now and then we get the chance to photograph a waterfall in profile. Such is the case with Cascade Falls – my side vantage point allows me to define its clouds of vapor and spray against the dark canyon wall. I layer both the plunging fall, its leading edge looking very much like reaching fingers, and the curling plumes of vapor, by filling the foreground with a frame of dark green trees. The result is a blend of beauty and mystery – a mood of nature at its most atmospheric.