ABSTRACT
“The more you look down into water,” John Ruskin, the eminent Victorian art critic, commented in his seminal study Elements of Drawing, “the better you see objects through it, the more you look along it, the more you see the reflections above it.” To which he subsequently added that the “most beautiful of all the results that I know in mountain streams is when the water is shallow, and the stones at the bottom are rich, reddish orange and black, and the water is seen at an angle which exactly divides the visible colors between those of the stones and that of the sky.”
