Multnomah
OK....so there's the fact that this is one of the most photographed waterfalls in the world...and the fact that you can pull into the parking lot and waddle up the fairly short trail behind the restaurant and gift shop and shoot away without breaking a sweat, and the fact that neither of these facts really do much for the "I want to be a serious landscape photographer" part of my psyche. (The Mossy Grotto was one of those locations. Hike straight up the side of a mountain and hurl yourself over a cliff into a pile of poison oak. Now THAT'S what landscape photography is all about!)
And yet...I'd have to admit that this was one of those locations that I was most looking forward to shooting when we got to the gorge. There's just something about the combination of that white bridge surrounded by lush trees and a waterfall that goes right up to the sky. As with my other shots from that week, I experimented quite a bit with the framing, but with my first post of this location, I wanted to focus on the bridge rather than the entirety of the falls.
After Multnomah, it was Elowah, Falls Creek, Panther, and Spirit Falls, and by the time I clawed my way out of the gorge back to the road, gasping for air at 7 PM, I had had quite enough "serious landscape photography" for one day. I'm hoping to be in shape enough to try some backpacking in the not so distant future, but in the mean time, I'm sure not going to complain when a waterfall like Multnomah is within throwing distance of my car.
Multnomah
OK....so there's the fact that this is one of the most photographed waterfalls in the world...and the fact that you can pull into the parking lot and waddle up the fairly short trail behind the restaurant and gift shop and shoot away without breaking a sweat, and the fact that neither of these facts really do much for the "I want to be a serious landscape photographer" part of my psyche. (The Mossy Grotto was one of those locations. Hike straight up the side of a mountain and hurl yourself over a cliff into a pile of poison oak. Now THAT'S what landscape photography is all about!)
And yet...I'd have to admit that this was one of those locations that I was most looking forward to shooting when we got to the gorge. There's just something about the combination of that white bridge surrounded by lush trees and a waterfall that goes right up to the sky. As with my other shots from that week, I experimented quite a bit with the framing, but with my first post of this location, I wanted to focus on the bridge rather than the entirety of the falls.
After Multnomah, it was Elowah, Falls Creek, Panther, and Spirit Falls, and by the time I clawed my way out of the gorge back to the road, gasping for air at 7 PM, I had had quite enough "serious landscape photography" for one day. I'm hoping to be in shape enough to try some backpacking in the not so distant future, but in the mean time, I'm sure not going to complain when a waterfall like Multnomah is within throwing distance of my car.