Jay Cooke

Hi all,
I haven't been too active on the site since joining a couple months ago. But seeing as how I just returned from 3 day trip to Jay Cooke State Park with a camera full of images, I figure it's time to start taking advantage of this valuable resource and ask for your opinions. This image is one of my favorites from the trip, but I also have many more on my website, timfeeney.net if you want to take a look. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Tim, I like this image. This is an attractive waterfall, nicely captured. I do have the feeling there is a slight tilt clockwise.

Where is Jay Cooke State Park? Is water volume due to a recent rain?

I am dittoing Scott above, except I think the tilt gives it a feeling of flowing down hill. The pastel falls are a extra special touch that raises it above the ordinary.

Thanks for the thoughts guys, I re-cropped and rotated the image slightly, and I think it works a little better now. btw Scott- Jay Cooke State Park is just south of Duluth, MN. It is a very interesting place, geologically speaking, because big chunks of rock have come out of the ground at odd angles. As I was walking through certain spots, I was thinking that it looked like Superman's fortress of solitude if it were made out of slate and graywacke instead of ice.

Very intriguing shot; I particularly like the converging diagonal lines.

It appears as though there are countless tighter comps within this frame as well.

ditto to all the coments. I like this one!

Very, very nice. I wonder if this is the St. Louis or a tributary. I've been intending to get back to Jay Cooke for years. Now it's a must.

The different angles of the rocks, IMO, is what gives the appearance of a tilt in the first posting. To me the water level in the foreground appears level, but yet the falls in the upper falls on the left look tilted. In the repost, the upper falls are level but the bottom appears tilted. Anyway you look at it, this looks like a great place for numerous photo ops!

You're right, Toni- because of the general geology of the park, the falls seem to lean one way or the other no matter which way I rotate. Perhaps I could use the distort function in photoshop to make everything straight and level, but that kind of defeats the purpose of documenting this unique area. btw ken- this is a shot taken from the swinging bridge, looking west I believe. The "falls" are actually pretty minor, but I used my trusty Canon 300 (which on my XTi comes out at 480) to fill the frame with them. because of the nature of that river, there are infinite places where similar shots could be made. here's a panorama I made that shows a good overview of the river.

Very nice - regardless of rotation! That pano is intriguing as well, cause that is not the sense I get from the first post. Nice job working the available options.....I think a trip is now in order!

CJ

I've never been to the north shore of Superior (shame on me). This looks like a park with lots of photo ops. One more reason to head up there.

I don't technically think of Jay Cooke as a "north shore" park, as it's about 20 min away from Superior. That said, it's a phenomenal park, with a great number of photo ops. I really wanted to spend some time there this year, but the chance never came. It's certainly a place on my short list. Nice images Tim!

great shot. I really like the colors and you slowed the water down just right. Thanks for reminding me not to drive past this park next month on the way to the north shore.