Here is what the falls herself looked like on Sunday. Raining, cloudy, and the wind blowing pretty hard as evidenced by the tree blur in this shot. I waited for about 30 minutes to try and get a lull in the breeze and I finally said the heck with it and fired away.
Canon 40d Canon 17-40 L at 17mm
0.8 sec at f/14 ISO 100 B&W circ polarixer.
Brian,
The trail was passable, but under water in several spots to the depth of 6-12 inches. Not being able to see the footing made me go really slow, which is really hard for me as I am a move-on-until-I-get-where-I'm-going kinda guy. This was forcing me to be more deliberate which is helpful to my images also.
The roar of these falls was very impressive as was the whole of Cedar Creek downstream from the falls. Anyone who made it into that flow would have had some real trouble getting out of it .
It seemed almost surreal. From the time I dropped down into the trail the roar of water filled the air. When I got down to the creek itself it was a constant roar and I was constantly looking around worried I was going to miss something due to the noise. Constant spray in the air from about 50 yards out from the falls. When I was back up at Mather Lodge there was a small group of what I took to be Girl Scouts getting ready to drop down into the trail. I told them to be careful and to be preopared to get wet and see a very powerful waterfall! I had thought about trying to get to Neil compton's Double Falls as I thought it would be good also. Never having been and being already tired I opted for an hour closer trip and am very glad I did. Although Tim Ernsts' shots of those falls on his journal made me a bit sorry....but I may never see Cedar Falls that powerful again!
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4 repliesCanon 40d Canon 17-40 L at 17mm
0.8 sec at f/14 ISO 100 B&W circ polarixer.
The trail was passable, but under water in several spots to the depth of 6-12 inches. Not being able to see the footing made me go really slow, which is really hard for me as I am a move-on-until-I-get-where-I'm-going kinda guy. This was forcing me to be more deliberate which is helpful to my images also.
The roar of these falls was very impressive as was the whole of Cedar Creek downstream from the falls. Anyone who made it into that flow would have had some real trouble getting out of it .