editing

Exaltation - a photograph

The image below is one of something like 50 that I took at Skogafoss in Iceland one evening in 2019 and was one of the many I had rejected due to several issues that I wasn't able to resolve at the time.

Going back through my libraries allows me to pull out some that were simply and wrongly ignored at the time, or images that were almost there but were beyond my editing skills to either bring the best out of or fix. In this case, fix, as there were two prominent sensor spots and a somewhat blurred second person. Two hours of research and careful messing about in Capture One and boom - the photograph below.

Is it a completely accurate depiction of the scene at the time? Of course not. But I love the image of the woman, arms raised, standing on a rock in front of a formidable and awe-inspiring waterfall. It feels primal and ritualistic and speaks to me on several levels. Hopefully it does the same to you too.

Exaltation. Skogafoss, Iceland, March 2019