I spent last long weekend visiting my parents with my 2 kids. We went for a short hike in nearby Golden Ears Park where I shot this image (among others).
I was really intrigued by the colour of the water, it really was green, while the rock by the shore showed up as yellow.
The problem was that we were at the waterfall at midday. The light was very contrasty, with bright highlights in the direct sun, and dark shadows under the trees. I could not get a reasonable image without resorting to HDR.{{1}}

I also did a bit of fine tuning (burning and dodging in old school terms) and some highlight and shadow “glazing”. Vibrance and saturation were tweaked to enhance the colours that originally attracted me to the image. Selective sharpening was used to enhance the highlights in the water.
Since the images were handheld, the final image is a bit of a crop from the original.
On a side note, I tried a print on a different paper than I usually use. I was not really impressed. Maybe it was a lower grade of Ilford Gallerie, but it was a bit thinner than I am used to, and there was significant bronzing in the image. I guess I will stick with my Epson paper for now…
[[1]]HDR is a method of taking two or more shots of a scene at different exposures so that you can get a wider range of tones represented. Unfortunately, HDR has a bad reputation, largely because Photoshop, and other image software has made the process deceptively easy. Maybe one day I will write an article on HDR[[1]]