This picture of the Pearl Shoal Falls in Jiuzhaigou Valley, China has been published on the September issue of Outdoor Photographer magazine, . Page 16, full page.

C.S.Ling describes China’s Jiuzhaigou Valley as “Fairyland on Earth”. Located in the northern part of Sichuan province, the magical landscape is covered by more than 100 lakes, 17 groups of waterfalls, lush forests and snowcapped mountains. Ling returned to the Pearl Shoal Falls for several days before capturing this image on an azure blue sky day. She says the photo combines the “essence of the four seasons - the red and yellow foliage of autumn, snow-capped mountains of winter, evergreen pines of spring and cooling waters of summer.”