The taking of this chapter’s “A” and “B” images saw my feet move hardly at all, between shots.
(in this series, each numbered chapter has an “A”/ “landscape” post and a “B”/“much closer” post)
For this post’s “much closer” image a much longer (more than 8X longer) focal length did the walking, metaphorically – my telephoto lens greatly narrowed the field of view, and brought the waterfall’s “centre” very much “closer”.
If you go back to the featured image in “2A” you will see that it made the relevant fall look somewhat “piddling”.
In the “2B” photo it appeared to be rather more substantial.
Here in “3B”, the image clearly shows that this fall packs a considerable “punch”, even when the Kunene River’s level and flow are relatively low – as was the case on 10 November 2022.
We noticed several swallows, obviously relishing the fall’s oomph; you can see one of them in the photo. (I think they were swallows, but they might have been martins)
A whole lot of water was falling, ricocheting, and spraying.
As a result, a whole lot of air was being whooshed and whirled!
I do not know what the birds were “up to”; perhaps they preferred showers rather than baths…perhaps they were “windsurfing” the whirling air…perhaps the rushing water and whirling air assisted their insect-hunting…
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