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 have been thinking about my dad a lot lately one of the main qualities he had that was persistence (maybe it was stubbornness).  When he decided that he wanted to accomplish something he worked towards that goal and not let anything get in his way.  I think this is one of the qualities that I picked up from him.

The image for this post is part of my project to photograph Monrovia Falls on a monthly basis.  Persistence has allowed me to continually find new photographs from the same places.  I really like this composition of Monrovia Falls and this trip was the first time I saw this composition.

I think this image reminds me of my dad since persistence lead me to this image.

Thanks for looking,

Scott

When my brother and visited Gorman Falls in December we noticed a rock formation in the falls that looked like a man sitting in the waterfall.  I am always amazed at the shapes of rocks.

Hope you enjoyed the photo,

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

I recently took about a two week road trip to Texas.  I drove from California and on the first day I made it all the way to San Antonio, New Mexico.  I photographed the early light at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge and then got back on the road to visit Gorman Falls in Bend, Texas.  Well I got part way to the Colorado Bend State Park that day, but not quite.  I stopped over near Junction, Texas to get some sleep and got up early to visit the park.  When I arrived at the park I found that it was closed for deer hunting and would reopen on Friday at 2pm.  I decided to head for the coast and visit family for a few days and return at thee end of my planned trip.

Cynde flew in over the weekend and we traveled to Rockport, Texas to explore and watch Whooping Cranes (photos later!).  I called my brother to stay at his house and have him ride up and see the falls.  We drove up to the the park and we had a nice hike to Gorman Falls.  These falls just do not look like anything I would have expected in Texas!  They were amazing and we had a good time photographing the falls.

I hope you enjoyed the photo and there will be more to come from this trip.

Scott