Waterfall Wednesday 6/25/2025

[AlanLichty]

Utah Hwy 14 follows the path of Coal Creek east of Cedar City heading towards Duck Lake and US89. With either heavy rain or snow melt runoff it can be quite muddy giving the water a brownish hue. In this case there had been a spring snowstorm the day before I was on this road heading over to Bryce Canyon and I stopped to grab some pictures of the creek running alongside the highway.

Add whatever you have showing water being obeying gravity.

 

[Michael13]

This is Wahkeena Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, racing down the hill to join the Columbia River.

 

[AlanLichty]

This is Wahkeena Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, racing down the hill to join the Columbia River.

View attachment 82556

I love the small scenes along this creek. One of my favorite venues for shots like this one. Nice shutter speed choice.

 

[Kyle Jones]

Veliki Slap (slap is the Croatian word for waterfall) which is the tallest fall in Croatia, although it doesn't look it from this angle.

 

[AlanLichty]

Veliki Slap (slap is the Croatian word for waterfall) which is the tallest fall in Croatia, although it doesn't look it from this angle.

View attachment 82560

Sweet - from what you have shown us with other views of the falls in Croatia I don't doubt its height at all. That place has some amazing falls. I'd call them slaps but have no clue what the plural of slap is in Croatian.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Another couple of images from my local river. After the recent rain, lots of tannin in the water turning it a deep brown but perfectly translucent, unlike Alan's muddy stream. I had photographed this river the previous day but the water had fallen a couple of feet overnight allowing me to wade in risking only getting wet, the previous day was too dangerous.

The water was low enough for me to wade right in although it was slow going as I had to test for deep holes in the river bed

I would have liked to have gone closer but the water was lipping my wellies and any false move would have left me with very wet feet and a mile long walk back to my car.

 

[AlanLichty]

Another couple of images from my local river. After the recent rain, lots of tannin in the water turning it a deep brown but perfectly translucent, unlike Alan's muddy stream. I had photographed this river the previous day but the water had fallen a couple of feet overnight allowing me to wade in risking only getting wet, the previous day was too dangerous.
View attachment 82566

The water was low enough for me to wade right in although it was slow going as I had to test for deep holes in the river bed
View attachment 82567

I would have liked to have gone closer but the water was lipping my wellies and any false move would have left me with very wet feet and a mile long walk back to my car.

The brown waters you get from the tannins are entirely different than the mud flows in southern Utah after storms. I like the translucent waters you get more than the silts. The water you show here still looks like a fairly hefty flow that would make wading seem a bit on the risky side but I do like the point of view you got by doing so anyway.