A face in the waterfall

Rain the day after Christmas gave me an opportunity to photograph small waterfalls cascading down a gully in the woods.

The woodland ditch where I took this photo has a watershed of about three acres. Only during times of heavy or prolonged rain will enough water come quickly enough to make waterfalls in this gully; most of the year this gully is dry.

I looked for interesting root and rock formations where the water was splashing with energy.

After more than an hour exploring the small ravine, I had compiled probably 50 images, most of which were useless.

Some of the images were time exposed to show the water in a flamboyant, smooth, silky manner. But the image I show here is one I believe is most interesting. It illustrates how nature can be an unpredictable artist.

The rushing water became a fleeting image that resembles an old man's face.

I did not Photoshop this image in any way and only discovered "the face in the water" when I looked at the images on my computer. Our natural world is sometimes unnatural.