Coombe Crag waterfall ( and swimmer)

[Ken Rennie]

From today's visit to the river Irthing at Coombe Crag. The waterfall image is taken with a blink of sunshine not something I usually do. Plus evidence that my wife wild swims. Northern English rivers are cold, even in the summer but she told me that it was warmer than her swim in the North Sea at Bamburgh last week. Ken

 

[Ben Egbert]

That first one, wow. That second one brr

 

[JimFox]

Your wife is sure brave! I wouldn't go swimming unless it happened while I was taking a photo. So kudo's to your wife Ken!

#1 is sure really sweet. I love seeing those pour offs from the side like this. And those swirls of water? Man, those are awesome. I aim to capture similar swirls, but it seems like it's only once a year at best that I am at a river where the water does have patterns like that to be captured as a swirl.

 

[AlanLichty]

Really nice shutter speed in the first one for those falls. I love the swirls and currents. I'm with Ben and Jim on the second one - brrr....

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Very nice work on that first one Ken - the only thing I'd wish for was a less muddy water color. Not sure how cold that water was for the swim...

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I relly like that first one, Ken. I am not sure that is muddy water. I think it might be tannin that leaches out of the soil that is coloring the water.

 

[Vieri]

I am most impressed by your wife's willing to swim in there! Way too cold for me!!

 

[Ken Rennie]

The water colour in lots of Northern England and Scotland is often brown caused by flowing from or over lots of peat and as Douglas points out pick up tannins from the peat. The water however is transparent but brown. After very heavy rain soil gets washed into the rivers and the water is brown but opaque with the soil held in suspension. Strangely enough a river in spate after very heavy rain is often lighter in colour than the normal river. Vieri, my wife is tough, living with me for almost 50 years she has to be. Ken