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I haven't been here since last year but I thought I'd post an old one anyways. I was working in Corvallis all last week and was tempted to drive a little further south to revisit this one. Last time I was here I took a vertical shot right next to the falls that I really loved but overexposed it slightly. Since then I've been wanting to get back here and redo that one shot. This place is always amazing to visit too, and like a lot of the waterfalls here in Oregon you'll probably have it all to yourself.
Fuji 6x17 camera.
When I visited Upper Proxy Falls, the waterfall itself was nothing special, but the slowly swirling water in the basin at the bottom made for an interesting long-exposure shot. The water was shallow here so you can see sticks and things on the bottom, while leaves and other debris on the surface swirled, creating a whirlpool effect.
Not enough water flowing yes but at least I stayed dry and the camera/lens wasn't drenched. It's still a nice walk through the woods and rich colors of autumn to see Proxy Falls in Oregon.
I seem to be getting less and less creative with my titles.
This is another aspect of Proxy Falls, one of the most magical waterfalls I've been to. This is from last Spring, when we hiked through 2.5 miles of snow on the road to even reach the trailhead, and then hiked another mile to the falls itself. I recently revisited Proxy (I won't have those images for another week or more, though, as they are slides and I'm not about to fire off my last few shots of Velvia without careful consideration) and guess what I found?
Snow. Sigh. Luckily, though, the road was passable this time, and the snow at Proxy was only a light layer. I actually journeyed up to the Dee Wright Observatory and when I came back down and hit the Proxy Trail, I was completely alone in the parking lot... just the way I like it. It was a damp but lovely hike and the waterfall itself didn't disappoint this time, either.
Taken with my Nikon FM, and likely Kodak 160VC film.
Provia 400x, 1/4 sec. Singh ray warming polarizer. It was great using faster film this time to battle the spray. I bracketed 4 shots, 1 stop apart (1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1 sec) on this roll with a polarizer and center filter at f/22 and didn't even use the bulb setting. That means not having a lens dripping with water after a 20 second shot.
Proxy Falls is an insanely difficult waterfall to capture with only a 24mm lens. Its size is unlike anything I've seen and yet there are so many small details to capture. I could spend all day in this one location!
More from my July driving tour of Oregon with my parents.
A photograph of Proxy Falls is on the cover of a book called Photographing Oregon by Greg Vaughn. This is lower Proxy Falls which you access by a scramble down from the designated observation point on a hill opposite the falls.
The "wet lens" version is below in a comment. For the above composition this was the only shot that didn't have a lot of mist/water on the lens. It looks like there is a little in the upper left and middle right.
This is located in the Three Sisters Wilderness area. The short hike to the falls is very enjoyable. You go through some old growth forest and then across some lava fields to get to the falls.