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1986 Lomo Compakt Automat, Kentmere 400 bulk loaded from 100-ft roll. No filter. D-76 for 8 minutes at 68f.
During and after a storm with significant rainfall our driveway here in Virginia becomes a storm gutter of sorts. This "stream" ends in the puddle that is pictured in my previous post. (see the second image below showing the tire ruts, one of which is highlighted in this image) I placed my D700 into the 1/4 inch water resting on the ground with the front of the lens millimeters off the waters surface to capture this image. A great makeshift tripod. The water tight seals have worked so far. Don't try this with one that isn't weather sealed! :)
I was enthralled with the runoff areas of the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park.
It was its own version of valleys and streams on a much smaller scale.
With the wet winter and recent high temperatures, the melting snow and heavy rains have resulted in streams of water finding their own way down the mountainside.
With temperatures trending upwards (to above seasonal) in the coming week, it won't be long before the Rideau Canal Locks open to pleasurecraft traffic.
This view looks north toward the Ottawa River, with the Alexandra (Interprovincial) bridge, which leads to way to La Belle Province, Québec.
Even though we are having tons of flooding in our area right now, there are still so many beautiful little creeks and waterfalls that are really fun to photograph this time of year.
Boone Fork Creek, Blue Ridge Parkway, NC
I set out to get a springtime shot of Boone Fork with the elevated water level from the recent rains. But there wasn't much time with the sun rising in a clear sky. At this spot I was able to include some foliage with the bright color of new leaves and a touch of filtered sun.
Schweiz / Berner Oberland - Aareschlucht
The Aare Gorge (German: Aareschlucht) is a section of the river Aare that carves through a limestone ridge near the town of Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. The gorge is an indirect product of glaciation; 10,000 years ago, just as the Ice Age was coming to an end, torrential runoff water from melting glaciers eroded a deep, narrow chasm through the limestone barrier. Although barely 2 kilometres (1 mi) long, this passage is bordered by sheer cliffs up to 50 m (160 ft) high on either side. The gorge varies in width from some 30 metres (98 ft) at its widest to just 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) at its narrowest.
The gorge is a popular tourist attraction, many visitors attracted by the nearby Reichenbach Falls, which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle selected as the setting for Sherlock Holmes' murder by Professor Moriarty.
Permission to build walking paths along the Gorge was granted in 1887, and the walkway has been open to the public since 1889. From 1912 until 1956, the Meiringen–Reichenbach–Aareschlucht tramway linked the gorge's western entrance to Meiringen; since 1946 the Meiringen-Innertkirchen railway has also served the same purpose. The restaurant and kiosk at the western entrance was first built in 1928 and reconstructed in 1987. In 2003 a station was built on the railway to serve the eastern entrance, along with a suspension bridge to link the station and entrance; a bistro and kiosk was added to this entrance in 2008.
The path through the gorge is accessed by entrances at each end of the gorge, where an admission charge is levied. For most of its length the path is a wooden construction on a metal frame cantilevered out from the wall of the gorge, with short stretches in tunnel. The entrances are each linked to stations on the Meiringen-Innertkirchen railway, with Aareschlucht West station at the western end of the gorge, and the underground Aareschlucht Ost station connecting to the eastern entrance.
(Wikipedia)
Die Aareschlucht ist eine Schlucht bei Meiringen im Berner Oberland in der Schweiz. Durch die enge Stelle fliesst die Aare von Innertkirchen am Fuss des Grimselgebiets aus zu der Ebene oberhalb des Brienzersees. Der Fluss durchquert die Schlucht mit einer erhöhten Fliessgeschwindigkeit von fast 12 km/h.
Das Geotop ist im Bundesinventar der Landschaften und Naturdenkmäler von nationaler Bedeutung aufgeführt.
Entstehung
Ein Kalk-Felsriegel zwischen Innertkirchen und Meiringen, der Kirchet, behinderte den Abfluss der Aare aus dem Grimselgebiet. Das Schmelzwasser unter dem eiszeitlichen Aargletscher kerbte sieben Schluchten in diesen Felsriegel ein. Die heutige Aareschlucht ist die jüngste der verschiedenen Quer- und Längsschluchten. Sie hat eine Länge von 1400 Metern und ist an ihrer engsten Stelle nur einen Meter breit; die höchste Seitenwand ragt 180 Meter hoch über den Fluss.
Wie der Ortsname Innertkirchen zeigt, teilt der Felsriegel der Aareschlucht das Haslital in ein inneres und ein äusseres Gebiet. Die Hauptstrasse 6 steigt mit drei Haarnadelkurven auf der steileren Südseite rund 80 Höhenmeter zum Lammiboden auf 710 Metern, von wo die Strasse in gleichmässigem Gefälle nach Meiringen (602 m) absinkt. Die Schlucht ist von der Strasse aus nicht zu sehen. Der Flurname Lammiboden ist vom alten Berner Oberländer Mundartwort Lammi abgeleitet, das eine enge Schlucht bezeichnet.
Erschliessung
1888 wurde die Schlucht für Touristen zugänglich gemacht. Ein Laufsteg führt über der Aare durch die schmale Passage, die seit 1912 mit einer künstlichen Beleuchtung für Nachtwanderungen ausgestattet ist. Das Grundstück steht im Eigentum der 1892 gegründeten Aareschlucht-Aktiengesellschaft in Willigen, Amt Oberhasli.
Die Schlucht ist von Anfang April bis zum 1. November täglich geöffnet und man kann sie über die Stege und kleinere Umgehungstunnel durchschreiten. Beim Eingang West auf der Meiringer Seite liegt die Bahnstation Aareschlucht West und beim Eingang Ost auf Innertkirchen-Seite die Tunnelhaltestelle Aareschlucht Ost der Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn.
Örtliche Legenden besagten, dass die Schlucht Heimat eines Tatzelwurms sei. Aufgrund angeblicher Sichtungen bis ins 20. Jahrhundert ist das Fabeltier heute das Maskottchen der Tourismuswerbung für die Schluchtwanderung.
(Wikipedia)
Water is the life-blood of the west. The northern 1/3 of Colorado received average or better snowfall this past winter. The farther south you go the less snow there was. The southern 1/3 of the state is in extreme and exceptional drought. We are in the middle 1/3, and our current status is moderate drought.
This area near Turquoise Lake is about 25 miles north of our house in an area that received close to average precipitation. I always check this spot every May to see how much meltwater is cascading down and through this section of forest. It's hard to see, but if you look close (or zoom) you can see the water cascading through the trees across the center of the photo along with the little waterfall in the lower right.
This is more runoff from the hills coming down to the creeks. I was again trying to capture motion in the water.
This colorful geyser is part of the Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, near Old Faithful.
Yankee Boy Basin, near Ouray, Colorado has been just beautiful this month. This is Imogene Creek, down below Yankee Boy. There are dozens of waterfalls up there as the last of the snow is melting off the mountains. The past couple weeks the flowers have all been coming into full bloom.
We took a quick day trip to Yosemite National Park to see the waterfalls. Being in California, it is really great to see a lot of fresh water!
With minimal amounts of rain and snow in the past few months, it is amazing that anything is flowing in South Alder Creek.
Alder Creek Grove, Tulare County, California 2012
Tasman Valley
New Zealand
Just quick update - we've been through some rather interesting weather at Tekapo and Mt Cook and now just arrived in Wanaka with screaming baby in tow! Charlotte was on my back for this shot - she was loving the walk - hating the standing still for long exposures lol . New Zealand is just incredible for landscapes - not much more to say than that! More to come later - I'm not happy with laptop editing as the colours always turn out strange when I look on my calibrated monitor back home.