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Proxy Falls
My journey to visit Proxy Falls in Oregon wasn't an easy one.
It was on the third day of the Oregon solo road trip. The day before this day, I camped at a place that is about 1.5 hours away from this waterfall, and my original plan was to shoot a sunrise near where I camped, and then headed out here. However, because the weather was clear blue sky for the entire duration of my trip, and I knew that if I stuck to my original plan, I would made it to this waterfall probably around noon, and the sun would be high on the sky casting harsh light onto the waterfall -- a nightmare to photograph waterfalls. So I then made the decision to give up my original sunrise shooting plan, but instead left my campsite at around 5:20 so I made it to Proxy Falls before 8am. You can still see in this photo that the upper portion of the waterfall was lit up by the sun, but not too bad to ruin the shot. Glad I made the right decision in the field and captured this image.
Proxy Falls
My journey to visit Proxy Falls in Oregon wasn't an easy one.
It was on the third day of the Oregon solo road trip. The day before this day, I camped at a place that is about 1.5 hours away from this waterfall, and my original plan was to shoot a sunrise near where I camped, and then headed out here. However, because the weather was clear blue sky for the entire duration of my trip, and I knew that if I stuck to my original plan, I would made it to this waterfall probably around noon, and the sun would be high on the sky casting harsh light onto the waterfall -- a nightmare to photograph waterfalls. So I then made the decision to give up my original sunrise shooting plan, but instead left my campsite at around 5:20 so I made it to Proxy Falls before 8am. You can still see in this photo that the upper portion of the waterfall was lit up by the sun, but not too bad to ruin the shot. Glad I made the right decision in the field and captured this image.