This is Trummelbach Falls near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. The waterfall is actually inside a mountain, and thanks to brilliant Swiss engineering, you can take a short funicular ride almost vertically to read a walkway which parallels a raging river and the falls inside the mountain. It's cold, wet, and loud near the falls, and I had to constantly shield my lens from flying water drops. Without a microfiber cloth to repeatedly clean the lens, I couldn't have taken a decent shot. The contrast was extreme, and I took a few test shots to determine the best exposure because the meter in this unusual situation wasn't entirely reliable. My settings were 1.3 seconds, f/2.8, and 400 ISO. Note how abstracted the falling water is given that the shutter speed wasn't very long. That tells you how fast the water was moving. I used a 16-35mm wide angle lens for the shot.
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