Waterfall Wednesday 12/4/2024

[AlanLichty]

My falls for this week are from a visit to the southern Oregon coastline a few years back. The location is a well known spot in the Samuel Boardman Scenic Corridor named Secret Beach just off US101 and right along the Oregon Coast Trail. Not surprisingly the falls are named Secret Beach Falls.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Taken on our way home from Perthshire last month. All taken in the Hermitage originally a pleasure ground for the Duke of Atholl in the 18thC but now owned by the National Trust for Scotland a charity which looks after historic buildings and landscapes. The Hermitage | National Trust for Scotland
The large waterfall in this area is the Black Linn which is best viewed from Ossian's Hall a folly built for the Duke and his guests. I have photographed it before but I wanted another shot at it. It is difficult to get a good image as you are very close and high above, so looking down with an ultra wide lens then lots of work trying to make it look natural. This is my best shot, newly processed but I had worked out a better way to get an undistorted view using a monopod hung down from the viewing platform and fired by remote control.

Unfortunately Ossian's Hall was being used for a wedding so I will need to wait for another year to get a better image than this. I did explore the left bank with my new 12-24 lens

Ossian's Hall

Getting into place with wet rocks covered in wet leaves above a wild river is getting increasingly difficult. I would have liked to have moved to the right but it was very sketchy and I chose safety over a slightly better composition

More from this location next week. Ken

 

[AlanLichty]

Taken on our way home from Perthshire last month. All taken in the Hermitage originally a pleasure ground for the Duke of Atholl in the 18thC but now owned by the National Trust for Scotland a charity which looks after historic buildings and landscapes. The Hermitage | National Trust for Scotland
The large waterfall in this area is the Black Linn which is best viewed from Ossian's Hall a folly built for the Duke and his guests. I have photographed it before but I wanted another shot at it. It is difficult to get a good image as you are very close and high above, so looking down with an ultra wide lens then lots of work trying to make it look natural. This is my best shot, newly processed but I had worked out a better way to get an undistorted view using a monopod hung down from the viewing platform and fired by remote control.
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Unfortunately Ossian's Hall was being used for a wedding so I will need to wait for another year to get a better image than this. I did explore the left bank with my new 12-24 lens

Ossian's Hall
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Getting into place with wet rocks covered in wet leaves above a wild river is getting increasingly difficult. I would have liked to have moved to the right but it was very sketchy and I chose safety over a slightly better composition
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More from this location next week. Ken

Wow - that place is gorgeous Ken. Especially with the fall colors. The leaves look really nice on the rocks but I can see where scrambling over those rocks would be a dicey proposition. I really like the view of the falls in the first image. That one is a first class wall hanger.

 

[Michael13]

The iconic view of Multnomah Falls is just a few paces north of here. Lining up the upper and lower falls is a classic composition, but offset is also an option. This view also shows a second parallel upper falls you may not have noticed before.

 

[AlanLichty]

The iconic view of Multnomah Falls is just a few paces north of here. Lining up the upper and lower falls is a classic composition, but offset is also an option. This view also shows a second parallel upper falls you may not have noticed before.

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Nice capture Michael - must have been during the rainy season to catch that second set of falls. There are a number of intermittent falls that flow between November and May in the Gorge but go bone dry when the rains stop.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

This is a small falls on Big Huckleberry Creek (parallel to Panther Creek) in WA.

 

[AlanLichty]

This is a small falls on Big Huckleberry Creek (parallel to Panther Creek) in WA.

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Very nice - I love the horsetail ferns and moss on the far bank of the creek. Neat pair of drop-offs in the frame.

 

[dan swiger]

Rapids at eye level. The mighty Colorado
This is from a 2005 BIL trip

 

[AlanLichty]

Rapids at eye level. The mighty Colorado
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Wow - definitely a unique view of falling water from the perspective of falling with it Neat twist on the theme.