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Triple Falls

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Posted by Ned Fenimore on February 3, 2007 at 11:14 AM
Triple Falls
I found this cascade on a protected salmon stream, a tributary of the Umpqua River. Below me was a large pool, and while I was there at least 5 juvenile salmon and/or steelhead were trying to make there way up. The water was so low, they ended up flopping back into the pool.

Canon 1D Mark II
Canon 70-200L at 110mm
ISO-50
f/32 at 1.6 seconds
Polarized
Posted by Marc Adamus on February 3, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Ned, I'm not really feeling this one. Sorry. I think it's probably the lack of complimentary subject matter and lack of perspective/scale. This could be 3 feet across or 30 - I'm not sure. But even with knowledge of scale, I still feel it's too one-dimensional. A very immediate image with a dominant subject and nowhere else to go.
Posted by John Lehmkuhl on February 3, 2007 at 2:38 PM
That's a cool multi-fall shot but agree with Marc that there isn't much of a story being shared in the photo... now if you could have gotten one of the fish trying to jump up here with this in the BG..... :smile:
Posted by Erik Lundh on February 3, 2007 at 3:02 PM
I agree the scale is a bit hard to tell. Maybe a leaf or something would help. Everything else looks good.
Posted by Mark Hudon on February 3, 2007 at 7:00 PM
It feels too tight to me, Ned.
Posted by Ned Fenimore on February 3, 2007 at 8:48 PM
Interesting comments... I would guess bottom of pool to top is about 8-10 feet... this little grouping was tucked neatly in the rock walls.. was sure it would work.. I'll have some more spacious ones to post into next week..