Tired Now

Being sick takes a lot out of me, so this will be the last post for today. The snowfall in West Virginia was over 1 foot so it was dificult to get clear pictures of anything other than snow covered trees and plants, beautiful as that may seem, but this one angle allowed me a clear view of the small falls.

Tripod

The last time I shot at Crabtree Falls, I winged it without a tripod and thought (wrongly!) that I didn't need it if I braced. Well surprise surprise surprise that didn't work so well. So this time I went prepared with the tripod. Works so much better!

Typical

Yes, another shot done in Black and White. Taken from the B/W option in my D1x, saves me some post-processing time and I feel the shots are more "true" than if I convert.

Crabtree Falls again. November (and it was *cold*, duh right?)

Out of Order

My new favourite place, Crabtree Falls. Should have been posted in November, but time and events got away from me so they are being posted after my Christmas greetings.

A series of four from there, and that should be it for the year, barring a sudden snowstorm.

Cheers!

Just in time for Halloween

Ooooo, spooky! A river of fog! No, not really, just a long exposure time, but it fits in with the season.

Main area

This is the 1st staging area, there's a long way up to the top but I love the effect of the water rushing pat and over all the small rocks.

No order

There is no order to these posts from CrabTree falls. I was there from before the sun had reached the mountaintop, to well after noon, and several shots, such as this one, were in the shade.

While on the subject of water

Went to CrabTree falls over the weekend to catch the fall colours and to perhaps climb to the top. I've been before (see winter pics elsewhere) but the area is so frozen over in the winter that one can barely climb to the first section. This time around the weather was perfect and I got lots of good shots.

Digital, with my Nikon D1x

A larger view

A wider (or better, depending on your point of view) look at the Blackwater Falls in West Virginia.

The sun was playing nice on a generally overcast day when I took this, so the land was deep green, with the waterfall still being white.

Would have liked the lake at the bottom some other colour other than brown, but you can't have everything.

Up Close and Personal

Okay not so much, but rather a closeup of the falls using a zoom lens. Nothing fancy about the image, I just like the step-life effect of the falling water over the rocks.

Waterfall

Always wanted the 'cotton candy' like effect of flowing water, but really hadn't been able to get that look until now. Circular polarizer to the rescue!

I could really slow down the shutter time without losing the colour of the surrounding area with thie polarizer. Now I just have to find one for my wider lenses

Ghosts in the Machine

Another excellent shot from the Falls area, this time with my back against the falls, protecting the lens from heavy spray (more or less)

Also going up on my wall.

Waterfall

I really like how this turned out. I'm going to hang it in my new office. Right at the base of the Niagara Falls, we were getting hammered by the spray, and yet I knew my Yashica 124G would be ok (the advantages of an all manual camera, no electrics to fry) so I took several images from this vantage point.

Lightly touched up in PhotoShop to reflect what I saw in reality and in my head that day.

Upstream

Shot of CrabTree Falls upstream. Not as heavily frozen over as a few years ago, so not as dramatic, but the fog helps give the place a sense of isolation and mystery.

It also helped that there were only three people (myself included) there.