Waterfall Wednesday 1/7/2026

[AlanLichty]

It's time for another round of falling water. Any shot that depicts water demonstrating obedience to gravity is fair game to be posted here. Anything from a graceful waterfall in the wild to the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas surrounded by concrete works.

My own offering for today is an appropriately named Mist Falls descending from low misty clouds in the Columbia River Gorge. This is an intermittent set of falls that's mostly dry during the summer months but got a good charge of water last month from quite a few days of fairly heavy rain. Single frame at 70mm on a Mavic 4 Pro.

 

[Michael13]

This is Burney Falls in Northern California. The park's campground has a trail heading down to the base of the falls, and it descends right beside the big drop, allowing photographers to shoot straight across from eye level.

 

[AlanLichty]

This is Burney Falls in Northern California. The park's campground has a trail heading down to the base of the falls, and it descends right beside the big drop, allowing photographers to shoot straight across from eye level.

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This is a really neat PoV for these falls and shows off how steep the drop-off is nicely. Well seen.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

I pulled out an old image shot on my first digital camera - Nikon Coolpix 990, shot as jpg.

This is upper Johnston canyon falls in Banff.

 

[AlanLichty]

I pulled out an old image shot on my first digital camera - Nikon Coolpix 990, shot as jpg.

This is upper Johnston canyon falls in Banff.

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Neat set of falls with a pretty healthy flow rate. It seems like a better image quality than some of the early smartphone cameras. That was a fancier camera than my first one - a Coolpix E800. At the time those were new cameras I was still convinced they would never reach the level of film and considered them to be toys