If you have been following this blog for a while you will know that I visit and photograph Monrovia Falls on a monthly basis. Well, on April 5th I visited once again and it was raining. The rain and the unusual atmospherics gave me some images that were a little different, some of while I rather liked while some were not so good. I did used a pre-release version of Photoshop CS5 that allowed me to “repair” defects in the images.

The rain upstream had lots of soil and other particulates gave the brown color to the water and the foam gives more a sense of movement.

I hope you enjoyed the image,

Scott

I gave myself a project to photograph Monrovia Falls over a year.  Well, I have continued it for longer than a year and I have been struggling with photos the different scenes one will see while hiking to the falls.  I have seen this part of the creek for some time now and I have not been able to get a photograph of it the I actually liked.  I took this photo on Monday of this week.

My dad passed away yesterday and I could not sleep so I processed a number of pictures in the early hours of this morning.  I thik he would have really liked this one.

Thanks for looking,

Scott

The past few days I have been working through my images from the hike with my brother to Gorman Falls in Bend, Texas.  As I write this I am almost through my initial processing of the images I captured while on this trip and I will be getting to other aspects of the trip some there after.

I spent about 2 hours at this location looking for good clean compositions that gave one a feel for the the site and this was quite difficult in that there is a large amount of brush and small trees just in front of the falls.  The area near the falls is restricted due to the sensitivity of the area and I was photographing just behind the small fence which is a short “cliff” next to the pool of water in front of the falls.  I will like post a panoramic image of the falls in the near future and I think that will make the above text a little more clear.

I have been debating if it would be worth the effort to clone out some of the distracting elements. . .

I hope you enjoyed the image,

Scott

This week we finally got some rain and that got me thinking that it is time to hike to Sturtevant Falls once again.  Last July Cynde and I hiked and there was very little water flowing over the the falls.  I was curious if the trees were starting to turn color and did see some yellow leaves on my hike, but it looks if the color change is several weeks from now.  I like seeing more water flowing over the falls.

As I have mentioned in past blog posts I am amazed at what plants do to survive.  I like the appearance that this tree is reaching for water and I think the low camera angle enhances this appearance.

Reaching for Water

Hope you enjoyed the photo,

Scott

As I have mentioned in other posts I gave myself a project of photographinf Monrovia Falls once a month for a year.  So far this Spetember I have not been able to hike to the falls due to the fires in the Los Angeles Mountains.  I have been thinking about the different hikes I have made over the past 10 months I thought about this image.

Stream Near Trail

This is an image of the stream you hike along to get to Monrovia Falls.

Hope you like it,

Scott