Great Smoky Mountains National Park offers many photographic opportunities, ranging from spring wildflowers to autumn color, from wildlife to moody early morning mist to fiery sunsets. Despite all the other possibilities, the almost innumerable streams and waterfalls within the Park are my favorite photographic subjects, regardless of the season. Nearly all the way up the trail to one of the Park's far more famous waterfalls--Rainbow Falls--is a small but picturesque unnamed waterfall, tumbling over a shelf of rock and falling about 12 feet to a LeConte Creek tributary below. On an early April morning in 2007, I had the little waterfall to myself for about half an hour. Overcast skies eliminated any problem with excess contrast, and I made numerous exposures utilizing various compositions. One of my favorites is this more abstract version, made from only a few feet to the left of the waterfall's vertical plumes. I find the almost ethereal translucency of the water very soothing, revealing, as it does, the greens of mosses and the grays, browns and reds of the underlying boulders.