After my experience with
Wahclella Falls the other day I've come to realize that one of my favorite things about waterfalls are the jets of water that shoot down, at the same time coming apart as the waterfall expands or dissolves into mist and coming together in jet streams. It helps to explain why I tend to like waterfalls much better than cascades (when the water falls along the side of a rock or a hill rather than through the air). In light of that I revisited some of my old photos and tried some color editing to isolate some of the waterfall jets like I did for my
Wahclella Negative and
Horsetail Negative. I think the style really emphasizes what's going on with the water, both how it's jetting (not a fast enough exposure to freeze the water in place except in the case of Courtney's Multnomah Falls photos) and breaking apart into specks of mist. The photos can sometimes look grainy but when I zoom in on them with my computer I can see that it's really a lot of individual water drops. I've also been looking at some of the paintings of Japanese artist
Hiroshi Senju, who is famous for his
waterfall paintings, like the one at the top of this post. Anyway, with no further ado, I hope you like some of the results of my photography experiments:
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| Lower tier of Multnomah Falls as seen above from Benson Bridge (Photo by Courtney) |
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| Lower tier of Multnomah Falls as seen above from Benson Bridge (Photo by Courtney) |
Now before I go, I need to address the current holiday. Yes, today is Halloween, and most of my readers know that I
hate Halloween. But this year I have discovered something Halloween-themed that I can get behind! The waterfall that needs no introduction:
Yes, this waterfall is actually called Blood Falls, and it's real. It lives in Antartica, so sadly I'll probably never see it. Iron-oxide mixes with salt water to give it that eerie red hue.
One website reports that it's 5 stories tall (compare it to the tent in the lower left-hand corner).
Happy Halloween
