Waterfall Wednesday 11/14/2018

Waterfall day is here so let's see some falling water.

Yesterday started out with miserable air quality conditions (AQ index of 160) out along the Oregon coast due to wildfire smoke filtering up from California so shooting anything with grand vistas was a washout. I decided to go up to Sweet Creek for more intimate scenes. From what I could see driving down to Florence on Sunday what was left of fall colors were quite drab and the Siuslaw River itself looked like it has even less water than a few weeks ago so I didn't have high hopes. I could not have been more wrong. There has been just enough rain to recharge Sweet Creek's waterfalls and as it turned out the maples along the creek had gone nuts. Combined with the hazy orange skies I got a color show the likes of which I have never seen in the coast range mountains before. This is the first of many images I shot while wandering up and down the trails there.


Pile on with your own waterfalls

Thanks again Alan for staring this. I really like the leaves on the ground in this one.

Here is a familiar waterfalls from my visit to Yellowstone.

AlanLichty said:

Waterfall day is here so let's see some falling water.

Yesterday started out with miserable air quality conditions (AQ index of 160) out along the Oregon coast due to wildfire smoke filtering up from California so shooting anything with grand vistas was a washout. I decided to go up to Sweet Creek for more intimate scenes. From what I could see driving down to Florence what was left of fall colors were quite drab and the Siuslaw River itself looked like it has even less water than a few weeks ago so I didn't have high hopes. I could not have been more wrong. There has been just enough rain to recharge Sweet Creek's waterfalls and as it turned out the maples along the creek had gone nuts. Combined with the hazy orange skies I got a color show the likes of which I have never seen in the coast range mountains before. This is the first of many images I shot while wandering up and down the trails there.

Sweet Creek

• AlanLichty
• Nov 14, 2018

A colorful fall scene along Sweet Creek in the Siuslaw National Forest.

Pile on with your own waterfalls

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Gorgeous image Alan, well done!

Oneonta Falls for me this week...

Alan,
Really nice.. we must get you up to the NE for some crazy NE color.

Nice shots everybody !.. I have a spot in the park that starts to flow when it rains.. well it rained and started to flow.
Arden valley Pop up...

I realized I never posted one from Yosemite on the waterfall thread. So here it is.

AlanLichty said:

Waterfall day is here so let's see some falling water.

Yesterday started out with miserable air quality conditions (AQ index of 160) out along the Oregon coast due to wildfire smoke filtering up from California so shooting anything with grand vistas was a washout. I decided to go up to Sweet Creek for more intimate scenes. From what I could see driving down to Florence what was left of fall colors were quite drab and the Siuslaw River itself looked like it has even less water than a few weeks ago so I didn't have high hopes. I could not have been more wrong. There has been just enough rain to recharge Sweet Creek's waterfalls and as it turned out the maples along the creek had gone nuts. Combined with the hazy orange skies I got a color show the likes of which I have never seen in the coast range mountains before. This is the first of many images I shot while wandering up and down the trails there.

Sweet Creek

• AlanLichty
• Nov 14, 2018

A colorful fall scene along Sweet Creek in the Siuslaw National Forest.

Pile on with your own waterfalls

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This is very cool Alan. It looks like by the light in the back there is a light haze from the wildfire smoke. The wildfire smoke is perfect for these intimate river/creek scene. Great fall color waterfall shot!

JimFox said:

This is very cool Alan. It looks like by the light in the back there is a light haze from the wildfire smoke. The wildfire smoke is perfect for these intimate river/creek scene. Great fall color waterfall shot!

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Thanks - I almost felt guilty about loving the light and the color knowing that it came via someone else's misfortune but the results were incredible. The haze knocked out well over half of the direct sunlight which allowed me to shoot scenes I can normally only get in either complete shade or overcast conditions. Surreal is the only word I can think of to describe the color cast the skies imparted.

Two from me this time. Not great waterfalls but may be of interest none the less. This first one is from the Tatra mountains in Slovakia. We were going to a wedding in Poland and took a roundabout route.


This one is Gordale Scar in Yorkshire. The top waterfall just appears out of the solid rock, the stream having gone underground a few miles away. I wish that my knees would let me clamber up to get a better viewpoint but those times are past. The sides of the gorge overhang and almost meet at the top. It is likely that it was a cavern hollowed out by the stream and the roof collapsed leaving us this very atmospheric place.

Onset of Winter
Carson River, Hope Valley, CA

Lots of great images already. Here is Alger Falls from the UP of Michigan.

Great start Al, you guessed right, and it paid off.

Then follows another great series all the way down. I went up and scanned down again; it makes a sweet trip. Well done.

I've got one from Gold Mine Stream, Adirondacks a few weeks ago.




Bart

Doug P said:

View attachment 13894 Onset of Winter
Carson River, Hope Valley, CA

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Very nice Doug!

Douglas Sherman said:

Lots of great images already. Here is Alger Falls from the UP of Michigan.

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I like this one a lot Doug!

Here is mine, its from Yosemite over by Wawona just a few weeks back.

JimFox said:

Here is mine, its from Yosemite over by Wawona just a few weeks back.

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This is really pretty, Jim.

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Bart Carrig said:

Great start Al, you guessed right, and it paid off.

Then follows another great series all the way down. I went up and scanned down again; it makes a sweet trip. Well done.

I've got one from Gold Mine Stream, Adirondacks a few weeks ago.

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Bart

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I love the color of the rocks in this one, Bart.

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Bart Carrig said:

Great start Al, you guessed right, and it paid off.

Then follows another great series all the way down. I went up and scanned down again; it makes a sweet trip. Well done.

I've got one from Gold Mine Stream, Adirondacks a few weeks ago.

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Bart

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I love the color of the rocks in this one, Bart.

Thanks, Doug. I went to Michigan Tech and certainly enjoyed being in the UP, but wasn't doing photography then; I saw some great scenes there, but nothing like your capture.

Well done.

Bart