Posts in Category: Waterfalls
Falls on Patterson Creek
Very low water flow but more than most right now. The primary source is springs. This is in the Greenland Gap area.
21mm Zeiss Loxia, Sony A7r2, Lr 6, Ps CS6.
Middle Fork
This image fascinates me, not because it is a particularly good image (it isn’t), but I really like looking at the rendering of the water. As usual I have to beg off a little because at this size you only can get a slight suggestion of what is going on (it looks mushy to me at this size, ~12%). There is surface… everywhere streaks, splashes, bubbles, gurgles. At any size 25% and up it looks downright painterly. At 50%-100% I can get lost in it. I will have to make a large print one day.
Technically it is a bit of a mystery. I shot this at either f22 or f32 (not sure which) but instead of it turning to fuzzy mud it is all surface. Was it the speed of the water? The turbidity? f22-32? A special quality of this lens? I don’t know.
100-300mm Zeiss Vario-Sonnar CY, Sony A7r2, Lr 6, Ps CS6.
First Falls of Hills Creek
This is from last November when Bob Clark and I did a quick tour of the Highlands. This is the first and smallest of three falls on Hills Creek in the Birthplace of Rivers National Monument – or so many of us hope it will come to be.
90mm Zeiss Sonnar G, Sony A7r2, Lr 6, Ps CS6. This is two vertical frames stitched.
Hills Creek
In the gorge between the second and third falls. What an outstanding forest gorge this is, as Hills Creek tumbles and drops from the highland plateau of the Cranberry Wilderness, to its ultimate conclusion emptying into… the side of a mountain? Yes! So says a wayside in the gorge. I tried to follow the creek on a map to the point where it goes underground, but I couldn’t locate it. It does reemerge as a large spring creek before flowing into the Greenbriar River, but I couldn’t locate that either. I will update this if I find more information.
90mm Zeiss Sonnar G, Sony A7r2, Lr 6, Ps CS6.
Big Run Falls
Straight on, straight up. Or maybe on the rocks. I haven’t been here for a couple of years. It hasn’t changed a bit. I am a little surprised there wasn’t a greater flow given all the rain we have been having. It was clear that there had been some flash floods here and on a few other streams I visited over the last few days. The forest road to this falls was washed out in one spot by a tributary. A FWD vehicle with a lot of clearance can make it through, but I didn’t want to try with my van… I would probably still be there if I had tried. Must have been a lot of water in that little stream just to get up on the road, not to mention tearing it up like it did.
Sigma DP3 Merrill, Sigma Photo Pro, Lr 5, Ps CS6.
Kinzua Dam Spillway
Judging from the local creeks the river was running pretty low. I would love to see this when it is really cranking with a full head and high demand for electricity. That is the entire Allegheny RIver coming out of this two shoots.
80-200mm Zeiss Vario-Sonnar CY, Nikon 800e, Lr5.6, Ps CS6.