Taiwan 2024 - Waterfall Area Near Chenjean's Village, Waterfall Shot #1

Now for the falls themselves.  Actually there are several.  Once you make your way up the 500+ steps to the first major flow, here's what you see.  It had been unusually dry for several weeks before our arrival, so this isn't nearly the volume of water that you'd normally see.  But it was interesting and kind of pretty nonetheless.

Being a tall waterfall, it's possible to observe something at work here...the simple effect of gravity.  The water at the top isn't yet going very fast, so the water appears as the series of blobs that it is.  However, close to the bottom, when the pull of gravity has accelerated its descent, with an exposure time of 1/200th of a second one can see the drops as silky lines, as if the shutter speed were slower in a typical, artistically-crafted waterfall shot.