Waterfalls [6]:![Waterfalls [6]](img/waterfalls-[6]-.jpg) Gudbrandsdal is narrow and steep-sided along most of its length, and the Lagen River, which rushes through it, is broken by numerous rapids and waterfalls [6]. In a few places where the valley broadens out, relatively dense agricultural settlement is found. Otherwise, habitations are krgely restricted to the valley bottom beside the national highway and main-line railroad that run between Oslo and Trondheim.
Make it a real point, however, to include these minor elements, unless the picture is a close-up portrait or a straight record. If the picture features a group of trees, a second group or other objects a little farther away will help toward balance. In picturing such subjects as waterfalls [6] it is often a help, rather than a hindrance, to include people who may be in the field of view. They should, however, look at the scene—not at the camera—and they should be at least twenty-five feet from the camera.
Here its course is broken by the Schaffhausen Falls (Ger. Rheinfall or Falls of the Rhine), some 60 feet high, reputed to be the most picturesque of European waterfalls [6]. Among numerous other branches, the Rhine is joined by the Aar, bearing the surplus waters of Zurich, Neu-chatel, and several other Alpine lakes. At Basel (Basle) it turns northward to separate the province of Alsace from Baden. In its course of some 233 miles in Switzerland, it descends nearly 7,000 feet.
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