10/24/26

 I finally made it down to southeast Kansas and drove on Route 66 with my classic car.  I went over to Joplin Missouri as well and a bit south of town is Grand Falls.  There had been good rain in the area so it was flowing quite nicely.  It flows over formations of Chert rock.  Chert usually has edges that are razor sharp when it breaks, Native Americans used to make tools from it.  Because of the many years of flowing water, this Chert was quite smooth and rounded and rather different looking than usual.  It was a lovely falls.

 

04/19/25

 While I was out in PA, my brothers and I went on a bit of a nostalgia drive and visited a couple of places including this small waterfall that is fairly close to where my parents lived.  It's a nice little waterfall and this image is actually one half of a stereo image that I shot.  I have recently gotten back into 3D.  I wish there was an easy way to share it for others to view.  This little falls empties into the Conodoguinet Creek which is pronounced sort of close to: Can a dog go in it.  😄

11/12/22

 I have not posted a waterfall image in a while.  We actually got a good amount of rain last Friday into Saturday, at least 2 inches if not a bit more.  The waterfall in the housing area to the west of me was flowing rather nicely so I took a couple of shots and this is one of them.  I liked the autumn colors around it as well.

3/25/20

Was it really only just 2 weeks ago that I was in Indiana and things were fairly normal?  Hope you are all doing well and staying healthy.  Get your info from the CDC, everything else has a chance of having incorrect info or recommendations.
Anyway, today's image is another view of Indiana's tallest waterfall in Williamsport.  I realized I did not state how tall the falls is and it was because I am very bad at guessing that.  I found out just how bad I am when I Googled it to share the info, my guess was 40 maybe 50?  It is 90 feet tall.  Yikes.  😅

3/18/20

Last Tuesday I was able to see the tallest waterfall in Indiana.  I lived in the state for over 9 years and never knew about it.  It is in Williamsport Indiana and was quite impressive.  Unfortunately it was a cold, wet and dreary day so I could not get to the bottom of it.  I thought this view of it was pretty nice though.

2/19/20

I shot this image last May and never shared it.  I am getting tired of winter and looking forward to green and other colors than just blah brown.  This is the Geary State Fishing Lake Falls just south of where I live.  We had a lot of spring rain and it made it flow quite nicely.

1/8/20

I love to photograph waterfalls and I have not shared one in quite some time.  This is Treasure Falls in Colorado that I visited on my last trip there during the Cumbres & Toltec trip.  

5/25/19

I went to the waterfall at the Geary State Fishing Lake yesterday with a friend who had never seen it before.  It was a good time, people were accommodating and friendly and the water was not too high to enjoy.  The last time I had been there it was flowing so heavy it was hard to really see and photograph it well.  This is what it looked like yesterday.

12/19/18

I haven't shared a waterfall in a while.  I visited a couple in Colorado late in May of this year.  This one is called Treasure Falls and is located outside and east of Pagosa Springs.  It's an easy one to get to as it is not far off the main road.  It has a nice easy walk to it.

9/26/18

Autumn is here for sure, it was only in the 40s last night.  Brr chilly.  This image was taken on a much warmer day.  After an 8 mile drive which was the longest of my life and a bit of a hike up a steep trail, this was the view I was treated to.  I thought it well worth the effort.  This is Silver Falls which is located outside Pagosa Springs Colorado.  I shout this long exposure with out any filter because I forgot it but got lucky with some dark clouds.

8/9/18

This is an image I took of a waterfall outside Pagosa Springs Colorado in May called Silver Falls.  It was an interesting one to get to, a very bad over 8 mile road that I was very glad to have a 4 wheel dive vehicle for.  Because the road was so bad there are not many people who go there so we had the waterfall to ourselves.  I had forgotten to bring my filters to use to slow my shutter speed down but I got lucky that it was a partly cloudy day and the clouds darkened it up enough to do it.

3/25/18

Posting an image today with two of my favorite things to photograph, trains and waterfalls.  I was photographing the train I rode to Silverton moving around on the Wye to get ready to head back to Durango.  I caught this image of it with two waterfalls behind it placed on each side of the sand dome, the one closest to the stack.  These waterfalls were caused by snow melt and it was interesting to see snow in July.

2/18/18

I usually share trains today because Sundays are for steam!  :-)  This is a different kind of mist.   A few years back, I had hiked down a lot of stairs into the Canyon of the Yellowstone to get this view of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone.  I thought it was quite worth it to be able to capture this great rainbow in the mist created from the falls.  The hike back up those 328 stairs, 500 vertical feet was pretty tiring.  

7/1/17

Posting quite late today as I was out all day.  It's already July.  Since we have had a bit of rain lately it reminded me of Spring when the waterfall was flowing at the Geary State Fishing Lake.  This is a regular exposure shot and not my usual long one.  Still looks quite nice I thought.

5/23/17

I was at the Overland Park Arboretum in Kansas a couple of weekends ago.  It was the second time I had visited there.  It's a beautiful place with lovely places to walk with many varied plants, flowers and trees.  The large Allium flowers, part of the Onion Family, were in bloom and I captured them in front of one of the waterfall features.  

4/27/17

So it was a bit frosty this morning.  I am hoping my plants survived it OK, I just planted 10 new things this past weekend.  Sigh, this time of year is tricky.  My image today is of the waterfall at the Geary State Fishing Lake south of me this Spring.  I am always amazed that such a waterfall exists near me in a place you would not think would have an at least 30 foot high water feature like this.  When it rains it is just beautiful.  I captured it this day in late afternoon sun and i like how the light rays played into the image.

4/12/17

Posting late as I was out of town at a Conference all day.  Last Thursday I went back out to the waterfall at the Geary State Lake.  We had had some more rain and I had not gotten a couple of shots to work out that I took the first time and so wanted to redo. This is the result of one of them.  The waterfall was flowing quite nicely, even a bit stronger than it had when I was first there.  The light was good as well and I was able to get this 3 second exposure with an ND filter.

4/5/17

I went to the Geary State Lake Waterfall this past Saturday.  With the 4 inches of rain that we had had it was flowing pretty well.  It still amazes me that I lived in this area for over 25 years and never knew something like this was so close until about 3 years ago.  It does only flow well when it rains well so I guess that is part of it.  The photo is a 4 second exposure.  The filters I was using give the image and odd color cast which I am having to experiment with how to get rid of it.  While playing I decided to see what this image would look like in B&W and I liked the result.  I gave it a slight sepia tone as well.