Oneonta Gorge

After a week of anticipation to get back into the Gorge again, Darren and I headed up early this morning to hit Oneonta Creek. I did a retake of this shot from last year on the way to Triple Falls. We had a great morning, even though we were operating on a total of 6 hours sleep. Later we meet Jesse and Kevin P on the way back out.

Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions.

Canon 1D2, Canon 24-70L at 28mm, ISO-100, 5 seconds at f/16, Polarizer

Dang, that was fast....mine are still downloading into the comp........

Sweet shot once again!

Those 2 branches at the top really make this scene sing......

this is seriously how green the Gorge is right now

Very cool Ned, love the moss, rocks and water flow. I could look at images from you, Darren and Marc all day and not get tired of them. Great JOB!

6 hours of sleep? Man, that's a long night's sleep for me I'm totally stoked to hit the Gorge this Monday.

Kevin

Thanks for the comments - yes, it was good meeting you too, Jesse.. I'm planning my next trip already... Staring next Saturday I will be up there every day for a while..

Beautiful Ned, I love when the gorge looks like this. I always love this spot on this hike.

I'm digging the water swirls Ned, nice.

Nicely composed image. Intense and beautiful carpet of green on the sides of the gorge. The water looks great and provides a nice contrast and the rocks add a textural contrast as well.

Really nice, Ned - good job on working around the stump. One of the best I've seen of this oft-taken shot!

Nice one Ned! Perfect exposure.

Ned, I liked it so much I went up there this afternoon! The conditions were quite as perfect as you've captured, but very nice. I hadn't been up there in about a month, and it's amazing how well the slopes above the falls have recovered from all those trees sliding into the splash pool. Now if we can have a repeat of the flood that showed up on Oregon Field Guide this week (turning Triple Falls into "Twin Falls"), we have that stump moved down to the old highway...

I love this place. You always bring out the detail so well in these gorge scenes Ned.
I do prefer your post on NPN as it has foreground foliage I've not seen from here before. However, I really like the highlighting on those upper pair of trees as Darren mentioned.

This is nice, Ned, where is this, I want to go there?

Great capture Ned... I miss the Gorge now that we're planted out here in Ohio. You captured a letter from home here. Nice job!

Thanks again guys....! Mark - it is right up past Ponytail Falls on the trail. The trail dips down across a bridge perhaps a quarter mile on up, and there it is. I'm going to be up there again next week, among a few other places I hope....