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Noccalula Falls Park (originally known as the Black Creek Falls) is a 250-acre public park located in Gadsden, Alabama, United States. The main feature of the park is a 90-foot waterfall with a trail winding through Black Creek Gorge at its base past caves, an aboriginal fort, an abandoned dam, pioneer homestead, and Civil War carvings.
This is what is left of Noccalula falls in Gadsden Alabama during our severe drought conditions. Usually this is a very spectacular falls.
A panoramic view taken near the base of Noccalula Falls. I would have liked to have shot closer to the falls, but there was just too much mist to make that possible.
About 2/3 of the way to the right, at the top of the gorge, you can see the statue of Naccalula, a Native American who, legend says, jumped to death rather than marry a man she didn't love. The statue shows her in the act of jumping.
To shoot this, I started on the right with a wide f-stop, dialing 1/3 stop narrower with each successive shot. This was to balance the brighter left with the darker right, without shooting HDR.
The trail down the small canyon to the falls takes you under a steep rock wall, not unlike the wall over which the falls pours. This is looking up along the trail.
Made my first trip to Noccalula Falls recently. It'd been raining a lot lately so the falls were really gushing...more so than usual apparently.
Photo doesn't really convey how high the falls are (90 feet). Video above does a much better job of conveying it.
Another view of Noccalula. I didn't crop out the people in this one to give a sense of the scale of the falls.
...then jump!! La Princessa Noccalula, not to be confused with La Princessa..Pinky! It was just a foggy dreary day all day.
My response to Brian's upload today LOL:
Yep it was cold this day, probably near freezing. And yes I was only wearing a t-shirt. But I was not the one in shorts but wearing gloves hahaha. Guess who Kami !?
Looking downstream at Noccalula Falls at sunset, the water is soo low. I have posted this shot several other times at different seasons so why not post a summer shot. I just like the way the sky reflected on the water all the way down the stream. Just humor me people, it is hot and hard to find something to shoot.
Noccalula Falls Park (originally known as the Black Creek Falls) is a 250-acre public park located in Gadsden, Alabama, United States. The main feature of the park is a 90-foot waterfall with a trail winding through Black Creek Gorge at its base past caves, an aboriginal fort, an abandoned dam, pioneer homestead, and Civil War carvings.