I took a walk today, partly because I need the exercise, but also to see what the canyon that I usually hike up looks like since we got all that rain around Christmas time. The path was pretty eroded with some deep trenches. I say deep, maybe up to 24 inches. The creek that flows along the path was still running pretty full. In the summer months it is dry but we are having some snow melt and probably some leftover ground water from the rain still seeping out. I left the path and chose to walk up along the creek jumping from rock to rock. Nice to see the water running. Nice to see all the little things along the banks and in the water. The sun was just setting and not too much direct light reached the rippling pools and little falls. The grade is pretty steep and the bed of the creek was lined with rocks which made a bunch of little waterfalls, some up to about 30 inches. I’ve always wanted to get some great pictures of waterfalls but there didn’t seem like much here to photograph, no grand falls with mist and roaring. Just little trickles. Well I figured that I should at least practice a little with what I had. I wanted to do some of those long exposure shots where the water looked all silky and smooth. Even though the falls were little it should still have the same effect. Little did I realize how much alike they were. I probably took about 100 shots and found a few that appeared to be deceivingly larger than they really were. This one I call Granite Pool, seemed to have that effect more than most of the others.
I think it is because of the lack of anything in the shot that would give away the scale. There were no sticks or branches or objects that are of a known size. Rocks look like rocks. Small ones look just like larger ones.
I had trouble at first with making these shots right. I didn’t have a tripod so I had to set Continue reading
