Tamanawas Falls | Oct '07

Shot this last weekend, after not shooting for awhile! The color up there hasn't quite peaked (larches haven't turned yet), so I had to scramble around to find some fall colors. I found this patch of thimble berry, but I'm not sure this image works all that well. Comments welcomed, as always!

Olympus E-300, 1/2 second, 11-22mm lens at about 13mm.

Maybe a bit dark but better than anything I've ever found up there!

I really like the falls and how the angle of the stream follows the angle of the thimble berry. I'm not sure about the horizontal format though, it includes a lot of stuff I find less interesting. Maybe a vertical crop?

Nice Tom ! I think John has a good suggestion. A vertical would streamline this and give you more space above the falls - assuming you go re-shoot of course

This is a tough falls to capture. A couple of years ago I was slipping and sliding on the rocks up by the base. I think a vertical crop would work better here. The thimball berry is a nice addition.

Okay, thanks for the suggestions! I think this would take a bit more work to get right, but here's a vertical version, a bit lighter and a bit brighter. This is a tough spot to photograph. For old-timers, there's also the memory of a huge larch that is now a dead snag along the trail to the falls. It was alive as recently as the mid-90s, and provided a spectacular frame for the falls in autumn. There are still a couple in the area, but not nearly the size of the old giant that was.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

Much better IMHO. I never saw the tree your referring to. To bad it's not there anymore. I wonder if is anyone who has a image with the tree.

Vert is mo betta, but also some more sharpening and little bit lighter would be the key. It's a very difficult shot to compose. I didn't like anything I got from my trip in there.