Dinah, Won't You BlowMossbrae Falls Dunsmuir, California The entire walk to Mossbrae Falls I kept having the song "I've Been Working on the Railroad" stuck in my head. ... "All the livelong day" ... To get to this waterfall you have to walk just over a mile along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. Due to a couple accidents in 2011 the town of Dunsmuir began to discourage people from visiting the waterfalls. We went anyways. A couple trains passed by but we were safely out of the way when they did. Willie and I left early Friday morning, spent the night in Shasta County, took some early morning photos and drove home. I think we spent more time driving than we did shooting and sleeping. We visited Burney Falls the evening before, had a surprisingly delicious meal (in which the waiter served us a number of free tasty treats ... personally I think he was hitting on Willie) and found our way to Mossbrae Falls. Compared to the gigantic Burney Falls, Mossbrae seems almost like a trickle. There's no real defined "waterfall" but rather it's more of a weeping wall. A number of other photographers will prob. agree with me that this section of the wall is the most photogenic of the entire set of "falls" here. I tried a number of angles from various spots and ultimately decided I liked this composition the best. I just love how the green moss grows all over the walls and goes perfectly with the waterfall. Nikon D800 w/Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S: 32mm, f/9, 13 sec, ISO 100
Sunset at Logan Pass Glacier National Park, Montana The first photo I saw that made me want to go to Glacier National Park was of Triple Falls in Logan Pass. Once I booked a flight and started to do some research I found I was more excited to shoot the rivers and streams in Logan Pass than Triple Falls. Before Willie, Alan, and I arrived at Glacier National Park the forecast looked good for some beautiful sunsets. Unfortunately that never happened -- on nights just like this, we watched the clouds disappear right before our eyes just minutes before sunset. 15 minutes after I took this photo the clouds were completely gone. So frustrating! Logan Pass is known for its rivers, streams, and wild flowers. Due to a dry winter the flowers weren't in bloom as we had expected. In fact, there were hardly any flowers around. Thanks to 2 days of rain, though, the streams were gushing quite well. Logan Pass sits in between 2 mountains: Mt. Reynolds and Mt. Clements. I find Mt. Clements to be the more photogenic mountain and I knew I wanted to find a waterfall with Mt. Clements in the background. I feel like I hiked around forever trying to find the perfect spot. I found this spot midway through my wandering and when Alan came around and showed me that he had also found this spot, I knew it was where I wanted to be during sunset. I got partially into the stream to get the angle that I wanted on the waterfalls. I then used a 4 image focus stack to ensure sharpness throughout the photo and a 5th photo exposed for the sky. I only wish the clouds here had lit up with some color but I can't complain. It was such a beautiful way to spend the afternoon that I didn't even mind my feet were soaked (I would have felt bad that Alan and Willie had to endure my wet feet but luckily Alan's feet were even worse. It wasn't until later on in the trip that I got my shoes so wet they had to be scanned multiple times at the airport!). Nikon D800 w/Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8 ED-IF AF-S: 17mm, f/11, 1/6 sec, ISO 160
Brúarfoss Waterfall Golden Circle, Iceland After leaving Gullfoss we made our way to Bruarfoss, an amazing little waterfall with some stunning cascades and blue water. It's a bit hard to find: you have to drive through a residential area and then hike a short distance to the waterfall. It was made especially hard because the roads were super icy and at one point we found ourselves stuck ... luckily Rebecca was able to maneuver us out of being stuck. We also couldn't find where to park, since the GPS location I had marked from my summer trip was now covered under snow! Eventually we were able to park and made it to the falls.
