God Mode
The incredible Multnomah Falls in Oregon, with some terrific fall color popping in. The Eagle Creek fire famously caused a lot of damage along the Columbia River Gorge near Portland and access trails to many of its famous waterfalls were shut down while the natural area recovered and damaged infrastructure was repaired. To my great disaappointment, many of the trails and falls to the east of Multnomah are still closed and inaccessible. However, Multnomah is open and as beautiful (and popular) as ever.
I cloned most of the people off the bridge here (in a pretty quick and dirty edit - don't look too close), but found the one figure silhouetted by the falls to add an intriguing detail, so I let them live (jokingly referring to the "god mode" ability to delete unwanted people from pics of course). In my previous shot of the falls from last year I used a vertical composition but with all the fall color surrounding, I decided to go wide. This is a pretty straightforward shot, the only thing you have to is patiently wait for people to make room for your tripod, oh and make sure you don't overexpose and blow the highlights on the water. D'oh!
This is such an epic waterfall that it really feels like it should require a monstrously difficult hike to get to it. But in reality it's just a pit stop along Interstate 84 from Portland and a few short stairs up to the viewing platform. I was really hoping to throw in a longer hike to some of the lesser photographed falls further east along the gorge route, but they're pretty much all closed. I sure hope they start to open some of them up again by next autumn.
God Mode
The incredible Multnomah Falls in Oregon, with some terrific fall color popping in. The Eagle Creek fire famously caused a lot of damage along the Columbia River Gorge near Portland and access trails to many of its famous waterfalls were shut down while the natural area recovered and damaged infrastructure was repaired. To my great disaappointment, many of the trails and falls to the east of Multnomah are still closed and inaccessible. However, Multnomah is open and as beautiful (and popular) as ever.
I cloned most of the people off the bridge here (in a pretty quick and dirty edit - don't look too close), but found the one figure silhouetted by the falls to add an intriguing detail, so I let them live (jokingly referring to the "god mode" ability to delete unwanted people from pics of course). In my previous shot of the falls from last year I used a vertical composition but with all the fall color surrounding, I decided to go wide. This is a pretty straightforward shot, the only thing you have to is patiently wait for people to make room for your tripod, oh and make sure you don't overexpose and blow the highlights on the water. D'oh!
This is such an epic waterfall that it really feels like it should require a monstrously difficult hike to get to it. But in reality it's just a pit stop along Interstate 84 from Portland and a few short stairs up to the viewing platform. I was really hoping to throw in a longer hike to some of the lesser photographed falls further east along the gorge route, but they're pretty much all closed. I sure hope they start to open some of them up again by next autumn.