Making Sense of Water

Level 4 of Mhun Dang Waterfall

Petchabun, Thailand

bridge & sky & cattails reflections in Pirita river. u&d

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I love when waterfalls are shrouded by fog! I had to clone a dirty baby's diaper out of this shot using Photoshop. I usually carry a garbage bag with me when I hike, and I would have picked up the diaper -- but it was across the river and I couldn't get to it.

Booooo! I hate when people litter. Why bother to come out and enjoy nature if you're just going to foul it up with your garbage?

Chattooga Cascades
Jackson County, North Carolina?
Accessed via Bull Pen Road (gravel) off NC-107

I was reading some blog posts on the Chattooga Conservancy website, "The Last Wild River" tonight and really wanted to thumb through my archives to find something relevant to post. Maybe not the greatest photo (a bit too much shadow in the right frame in my opinion), but some of my more recent work on the Chattooga. I was researching the Upper Chattooga Narrows, an area that I've wanted to explore for some time now but have been taking my time to get to. I've had the pleasure of roaming these mountains for a couple of years now and the honest truth is that every single season I find new places to explore and the fire burns a bit brighter and I get just a bit more smitten with this area.

These are a couple of excerpts written by South Carolina native Bronwen Dickey about the Chattooga River and featured in "The Best American Travel Writing 2009," a book edited by Simon Winchester and published by Houghton Mifflin:

"Even in the dead of winter, the air wraps around you with the smell of mountain laurel, hemlock, and rhododendron, a smell just a notch sweeter than that of fresh-cut grass. The world unfolds in sheaves of green and gray and blue and brown, then folds back up in layers of shadow. The dirt road drops off steeply to either side, without the added security of guardrails. Radio stations come in infrequently, if at all. Walk half an hour into the woods, and you're away from ninety percent of the population. Walk an hour into it, and you leave behind ninety-nine percent. It's just you and the limitless indifference of a vast, tangled country."

"I wanted to lock the wildness of the river into the sandstone somehow so that it couldn't be touched by men, and climb back out-straight up-through the mud and undergrowth, crawling over decayed logs, tripping over vines, my lungs burning from the effort because there weren't any roads. In my heart, if not my head, I wanted the glittering, jade eyes of the last cougar in the South to study me from under a ledge. I wanted to feel that cold fear that sluices through your veins when you realize you're truly alone out in the wild-or that you aren't. Emerging from the woods at dark-thirty (the Appalachian term for half past sunset), looking rougher, as my dad used to say, than a night in jail, I wanted to drive back down out of the mountains knowing that the people who had been living there for generations weren't in any danger of being forced out, because I didn't want to walk around in fifty years and see flattened patches of grass where the farmers and moonshiners and hellraisers used to live. And, before I arrived home, I wanted to stop at Burrell's Place and drink a beer out on the porch while Junior Crowe played songs that sounded familiar to me. "Shall We Gather at the River," maybe. That's one I know."

The Chattooga Conservancy website I referenced:
www.chattoogariver.org/index.php?quart=Su2008&req=the...

The full piece:
www.bronwendickey.com/writing/the-last-wild-river.php

About Bronwen Dickey:
www.bronwendickey.com/about/

The referenced book:
www.amazon.com/Best-American-Travel-Writing-2009/dp/06188...

Moon over the Pacific Ocean in Oceanside, San Diego, California. Different exposures for the landscape (long) and moon (short).

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/djkj/

Photo made with an infrared filter with a six second exposure on a Canon A610 digital camera. I used an infrared filter as I did not have a neutral density filter with me. ISO set at 50, aperture at f/8.

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follow me
to the river
follow me
with the soul
follow me
I fall in love

your skin
run
the melody
of your dreams
turn
the pages
of our love

Kodak Portra 400VC expired film (over 1 year old) + Nikon F70 + Tokina ATX-PRO 28-70 f:2.8 - Minolta DIMAGE IV scanner

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The tallest waterfall above the Arctic circle. its near Bathurst inlet in Nunavut. We had to portage around the gorge but got a first hand look at the waterfall.
This is an amazing waterfall on the Hood river, right where the river goes from flowing eastward to northward, flowing into Bathurst inlet.
this shot was taken with a little waterproof olympus stylus 1080sw

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Another view of the lake dwellings, this one is digital. I was going to post more Holgas from here, but have not had the time to get to them yet. This was originally posted on my blog last Fall. Stay tuned for more Holga images...

This image is actually a composite of 5 separate frames, each composed vertically, and then assembled into a single image in Photoshop. The reason for this is that I did not have a lens that was wide angle enough to capture the view that wanted.

In terms of location, this group of structures is to the right of the ones shown in the previous Holga image. The walkway you see on the far left of this image leads to the platform shown in the Holga photo. I am so glad that it was dark, cloudy and rainy that day. This scene just would not have looked the same in the bright sun with a blue summer sky!

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I just came home from a great camping trip with my family. First we spent two nights at Geysir and then one night at Faxi (10 km from Geysir) and that´s where this great waterfall is located.