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Proxy Falls is a stunning waterfall located in the Three Sisters Wilderness of Oregon's Willamette National Forest. It's known for its unique double-tiered cascade and the way the water disappears into the porous lava beneath it. The 1.6-mile loop trail offers close-up views of both Upper and Lower Proxy Falls. The trail is generally considered easy and family-friendly, though it can be challenging to access the base of the falls due to rocks and debris
I had the week off work last week and was looking for some low-key places to spend it, i.e. no overnight traveling, just day trips. Proxy Falls had been on my radar for awhile as it had been a few years since my last trip down there. So I figured a drive down would be a good idea. Goodness, was it ever, but not for any reasons shown here. The drive itself was phenomenal. One of those drives where you wish you weren't driving... maybe bicycling so you could just pull over every 50 feet. Or at the bare minimum riding passenger so you could stare out the window with the risk of running off the road. Our route out along the Santiam River and then down to the McKenzie River one was endless stream of autumn color. I have done that drive before at the height of fall color and it is a sight to behold.
On that day though there was no stopping. A late start out the door had us on a perfect schedule to make it to Proxy Falls and still have a bit of daylight left. So we enjoyed all those sights with our eyes but not our cameras, allowing a short stop at Sahalie Falls before pushing on to Proxy. Proxy itself wasn't showing much autumn color but that is ok as this falls is gorgeous no matter the time of year.
I was borrowing/testing a Horseman 6x12 that had just come into Blue Moon Camera and had brought that along in place of my usual 6x17. The interesting thing is though the 617 is more panoramic, this Horseman had a 55mm lens on it, which on this format is insanely wide angle. Upon arriving at Proxy, even though I prefer the view from the bottom, the upper view fit itself so well to this camera that I had to stop and make this image of the falls surrounded by its environment.
I imagine I will share some of the other five images I got off this roll (6x12 format only allows six shots per roll of 120), it was a good roll of film. Scarcity of frames generally makes me photograph even more carefully than usual.
And as a side note, though there was no stopping on the day this image was made, the drive down was so beautiful that we ended up making the same trip again two days later, going half as far but stopping five times as much.
Horseman 6x12
Kodak Ektar
I had a great time out today with Don and Aaron as we made the pilgrimage down to Proxy Falls, supposedly the most photographed falls in Oregon, though considering how I see many more photos of many other falls, I might be willing to argue that claim. ;-)
Anyway, Proxy is truly a spectacle, and is such a large falls, both in terms of height and width, that there are many different ways to go about photographing it. I also find it is a perfect falls for pinhole, as the falls itself tends to always be in the shade, pinhole exposures all usually time out to be 4-15 minutes, which gives me plenty of reason to just stand and stare, which is hard not to do here.
But this shot was not with the pinhole, nor was it taken today. I have found a good rhythm for posting film shots, as it usually takes me one to two weeks to develop the film, print proofs, decide which ones to scan, scan them, post process and then decide which ones to post. So I just wait a year until those photos are once again relevant. :-p
On another note, the Mackenzie Pass Hwy I have found is an absolutely mind-blowing drive for fall color, arguably more impressive than even the Columbia River Gorge... if your timing is good. We were hoping for some color today, and we got quite a bit of it, but the stretch of highway around the trailhead and on to the summit was still surprisingly green. I think another week, week and a half, and it is going to be a fireworks show of fall colors up here.
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This was from 3.5 years ago. I was looking through my archives and I noticed that I never processed this image.
Proxy Falls
Esta ubicada en el Bosque Nacional Willamette.
Su catarata principal mide 69 metros . Proxy Falls es una de las cataratas más frecuentemente fotografiadas en Oregón.
I visited my sister in Oregon last summer. We went to Proxy Falls while the sun was gently filtering through the trees. The light played on the falls like small diamonds. It was a very beautiful scene. It really felt like we were there at just the right time.
There are lots of reasons to dislike working graveyard shifts. Trying to enjoy nature on your time off would be one of the first reasons.
The other day, when I had a rare day off with Beth, we decided to make a jaunt over to Proxy Falls since neither of us had been there before. Part of the problem with our plan was that we weren't even up and ready until about 2 p.m. (yes, in the afternoon). By then we're making sure batteries are charged, lenses are in the bag, memory cards are loaded, sodas and sandwiches (and maybe a bottle of wine) are in the cooler, and that everything is ready. Then there's the sudden trip to the store to get cat food (not for us, for the cat) and a stop at the fuel station to fill up.
We have about a three hour drive ahead of us (or so we think) and we're finally leaving the house at about 3 p.m. Also, we then realize that it's Friday as we start to encounter some rush hour traffic. If all goes well it's starting to look like we'll have maybe an hour of daylight by the time we find the trail and get to the falls. Yikes.
About three hours of junk food, lap-surfing chihuahuas and awesomely bad early-90's pop music (thanks, Pandora) later we're at the trail and hoofing it in as quick as we can. Luckily the trail is absurdly short.
We get to the upper falls first. I knew there were two, but didn't realize how they were set out on the trail and had envisioned that maybe they were just separate tiers as opposed to being two completely separate waterfalls. Either way, despite how beautiful it was in its own right, I knew that with time not on our side the waterfall we were looking at was not the waterfall we were looking for.
After a short walk up the trail my ears were telling me that we were getting close. A distant thunder became louder and louder until parts of it started to become visible through gaps in the surrounding trees. And then there it was - more beautiful than even I had imagined. A towering cascade of silken water and breathtakingly green moss.
Awe gives way to panic as I notice that bits of sun are poking through the trees and it's dangerously close to the western horizon. We don't have much time. We scramble. Find some compositions. Fight the immense spray that is coming down and coating our lenses. And come away with only a handful of shots for each of us. But it was all we needed. It had to be.
We head back to the car and have our sandwiches in the dark where we discuss the beauty of the falls and plan our route to get a roof over our heads for the night. We have about another hour drive ahead of us as we tackle the endless amount of 20 mph corners along the McKenzie Pass in the pitch black night.
We fall asleep road weary, our wine unopened, a lot of miles on the car, and our memory cards sparsely occupied by what is surely one of the most beautiful waterfalls imaginable. It couldn't have been a better trip.
My personal fav falls in Oregon. My first time here and I left with quite a bit of damage. Slipped, fell, damaged gear, drowned a remote, ripped pants and a couple deep cuts. Mist machine 1 - Ter 0. I will be back again. I will.
Another shot of Proxy falls in Central Oregon...
0.8-sec. exposure, 17mm @ f/9, ISO 50, B&W circular polarizer
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Since I have never been to Proxy Falls and considering the bad luck of my friends who have visited I think I'll skip the broken lexus tail pipe and broken wide angle lens and dub this my Proxy. Happy Friday rvrybody's :)
Dim CT-3595-2
1er Prix, Catégorie Macro-Rapproché
Exposition Club Photo Dimension, avril 2018
Photo-Proxy prise au lever du soleil sur le littoral du fleuve St-Laurent, QC
A section of Proxy Falls spills over and cascades down a mossy rock face in the Willameet National Forest.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm.
I've been dying to see this place for a long time... seeing Aaron Reed's latest image of this place pushed me over the edge... I got on a plane and flew into Redmond late last night and visited this beauty this morning
Trying to put together some prop set pieces, part of my next scene for that Proxy series.
A little bare bones in my opinion. Graphic design isn't really my strong suit. I was trying to find some more futuristic fonts but wasn't having much luck with Kanji fonts.
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