Waterfall Wednesday 2/7/2018

[AlanLichty]

Another Wednesday and another waterfall thread.

Along the south shore of the Quinault River just part the east end of Lake Quinault lies a small drainage named Bunch Creek. There is a set of falls viewable from the South Shore road called appropriately Bunch Creek Falls. Pretty much a series of cascades rather than one big drop but picturesque especially in the fall with changing leaves.

Bunch Creek Falls

• AlanLichty
• Feb 7, 2018

Bunch Creek Falls along the south shore of the Quinault River.

Add your own falls......

 

[MonikaC]

Very nice, Alan. Do you get reds there or "just" yellow/orange?

Downstream from Devils Postpile, there's a reliable mistbow at the falls. This was probably with a P&S. Please forgive the WA distortion.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks for starting Alan. Great shot of Quinault river, I was there once.

Monica. I went on a YMCA campout at Rainbow Falls in 1954. This brings back memories.

Here is one of mine. Taken in Yellowstone Park shortly after entering over the Beartooth Highway.

 

[Zeph]

A bit different, not sure if it works for you?

 

[AlanLichty]

Very nice, Alan. Do you get reds there or "just" yellow/orange?

Downstream from Devils Postpile, there's a reliable mistbow at the falls. This was probably with a P&S. Please forgive the WA distortion.

Reds aren't common in the rain forest areas and depending on your location even the yellows can be elusive. The most common deciduous tree on the Olympic Peninsula is the alder which only takes on hints of yellow before falling off the tree while sort of a sickly looking green. I thought they might look like aspen in the fall when I first came to the NW and kept thinking that I had mistimed my efforts to catch them changing. The yellows in my image are not alders as they rarely take on that much color.

 

[AlanLichty]

A bit different, not sure if it works for you?

It does work for me - nicely seen.

 

[Kyle Jones]

Here are a couple of frozen falls at Natural Bridge in Canada's Yoho National Park. I'm not sure how well they work as photos, but shooting them while standing on the ice and hearing the water rushing under it was quite the experience.

 

[AlanLichty]

I think hearing the water underneath my feet would be at least slightly unnerving. I like the bluish tint to the falls in the first image.

 

[Marcy]

Newberry falls in Oregon last summer

2017_newberry_falls_04_web by starburr45, on Flickr

 

[lionking]

Beautiful work guys.
Here is mine from sat:
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Thank you.

 

[AlanLichty]

Newberry falls in Oregon last summer
2017_newberry_falls_04_web by starburr45, on Flickr

Most maps show those falls as Paulina Falls. Interesting to see Paulina Creek high enough to give equal weight to both of the falls paths. In the fall the branch on the right hand side goes almost dry.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Cool shots this week, esp. Kyle's - very abstract. Brought back memories of my frozen waterfall climbing days back in UT so I went back into my archives to find these. Both are color slides (likely Fuji Provia 100) shot with a Pentax ME-Super, scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 4000, converted to B&W in Silver Efex pro. Shot in Little Cottonwood Canyon near SLC.

Cold-Duck-Ice-BW

• Jim Dockery
• Feb 7, 2018
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One of my favorite shots because it was taken in the sun during a cold snap on a rarely forming waterfall (most are in deep shade all winter).

Scruffy-Band-Ice-Climbing-BW

• Jim Dockery
• Feb 7, 2018

My favorite waterfall climbing shot that really shows the magical environment where we played. It was quite fun to hack through those chandelier icicles (trying not to drop them on your head), knowing that they would often reform in a new pattern overnight for the next climbers to encounter.

 

[MonikaC]

A bit different, not sure if it works for you?
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I like that lot, Zeph. Catching the essence of the falls.

 

[JimFox]

A tree that is no longer standing. Even though it's dead here, it stood for many many years. It's a view from Yosemite I shot in many seasons and times and should put together sometime into a series.

 

[JimFox]

Here are a couple of frozen falls at Natural Bridge in Canada's Yoho National Park. I'm not sure how well they work as photos, but shooting them while standing on the ice and hearing the water rushing under it was quite the experience.
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Oh man Kyle, those both do work really well. I know as I gazed up through #1 I kept getting dizzy!

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice collection once again. This falls is in Mt Rainier NP and leads to Christine Falls below.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here are a couple of frozen falls at Natural Bridge in Canada's Yoho National Park. I'm not sure how well they work as photos, but shooting them while standing on the ice and hearing the water rushing under it was quite the experience.
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Love the first one. Standing on ice with water flowing underneath - I am sure that was quite an experience.

 

[MonikaC]

I knew I had something more interesting in the archives.
Detail at Gulfoss

 

[Dave Johnston]

A little different from the usual waterfall; it was fun to play with the patterns of the layered sediment.

Mill Creek Layer 1 BW

• Dave Johnston
• Feb 7, 2018

DAve

 

[JimFox]

I knew I had something more interesting in the archives.
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That is pretty sweet Monika! The tones in this are rather mysterious in feeling.