What do you do when the light at the waterfall is too bright and too harsh to take photos of it? Right, you look for something else, and I found some really interesting patterns of lichen on the rocks beneath the waterfall.
Because I took quite some time to take photos at another waterfall in the Maltatal Valley, I arrived a little bit too late at the second waterfall that falls into a little lake that's called "Blauer Tumpf" (Blue Pond). Actually, the pond isn't really blue, at least I might haven't seen it in the right light to let it look blue, but it's a lovely place there and every time I've been there, I had it for me alone. So, the sun shone directly onto the waterfall, but luckily I found some really cool looking rocks which were overgrown by colorful lichen.
I know that it's not to everyone's taste, but when you zoom into the image, there's so much to see that most people wouldn't expect, I believe ... there's lichen and little mushrooms in many colors ... another world, a small other world ;)