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YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, ON THE WAY TO DINNER, I STOPPED at Buttermilk Falls-on the Raquette River-to check out the spring runoff. The falls, which is really more of a rapids with a significant drop over its span of about 100 meters-was in a fine fury and sounded like thunder as I approached it through the forest.
I pictured the falls as I walked it from top to bottom. The result is presented above in 2 formats - a long horizontal which is how I will print it-6 ft in length-(but may be difficult to view online) and stacked (which might be easier to view on line).
On a side note, one landscape / nature picture making cliche I detest is the very common technique of picturing moving water with a slow shutter speed which renders the water with a fuzzy, diaphanous, cloud-like effect. A practice which hearkens back to the early days of photography when picture makers were using very slow plates, film (or whatever light-sensitive material) which necessitated very slow shutter speeds.
This annoys me cuz it, iMo, “emasculates” the power of moving water, even the water in a gently flowing stream. It might be just me, but I simply do not get it.
FYI, before I left for dinner, I manage to make yet another kitchen sink picture.
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