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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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This is Proxy Falls.
I don't really like this place very much. I mean, it's beautiful and all...and the first time you see it, it's awe inspiring. Heck, even the second and third time it gives you pause. Yet, when I think of Proxy Falls I really don't like it very much...
See, the first time I trekked here was in the spring. DUMB!
As I climbed to the bottom of the falls I quickly realized that shooting was going to be a big challenge...more challenging than any waterfall I'd photographed before.
First issue, MIST.
No, not mist...RAIN! The mist coming off this falls is so strong, it's more like rain. You are pretty much drenched within just a couple of minutes.
Second issue, COMPOSITION.
This place is humongous...enourmous, ginormous and every other-normous you can think of. To your eye it's just all stunning but through the camera it's tough (at least for me) to pull it all together into something that conveys the magnitude of the location.
So back to why I don't much care for Proxy Falls...this visit I'm recanting was in May. The falls was RAGING. It didn't take me long before I packed it up and left...tail between my legs, ego brused, temper flared up, irritation factor...11.
Proxy had won...this time.
As I drove away in disquist that a waterfall would treat me so poorly, I vowed to return. "I'll go back in the fall...the mist should be much less and the flow will be more manageable...ya, that's what I'll do..." I mumbbled to myself.
-- FLASH FORWARD TO FALL --
After 3 back-to-back Aperture Academy Workshops...Arches, then Grand Teton, then Yellowstone...on the way home I stopped by Proxy for...you guessed it, A REMATCH!
This time I had Scott Davis with me...friend, fellow photographer, Aperture Academy Instructor...he's in for a treat I tell him...this is gonna be easy...
NOT!
We make our way through the short hike in and down to the falls. Instantly I realize this isn't going to be easy. The flow is much less but the mist...it's still pretty bad!
SO...
I go into full on keep-my-lens-dry-mode by rubber-banding a Sham-Wow over the end of my lens...one of those disposable shower caps over my camera and I set out to find a comp. Yes, my camera looks getto, really getto, but I'm hell bent to shoot Proxy and get the hell out of there.
After a bit I'm having some success at keeping my lens dry...flapping my Sham-Wow up and down between exposures...then I switch spots with Scott only to find him irritated...the same kind of irritation and frustration I felt in the spring.
He's bent. I feel for him. I encourage him. It's not working.
Finally, we've both had enough and he proclaims "Proxy won this battle, but I'll win the war..." He declares to return someday...armed with a giant fan to blow the mist back... We laugh, sorta.
And away we went...Scott ready to come back and do battle again some day...me, wondering if I got anything I'd be happy with from this crusade.
So this is it. My "take" of Proxy Falls, Fall 2010.
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.
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.
The hike into Proxy Falls isn't really a long one (about twenty minutes from the parking lot) - but, at an elevation of three and a half thousand feet you definitely feel your lungs. Persevere though, and once you're at the falls and take in the scene in front of you, it is no longer the elevation that takes your breath away.
Point Of Interest: for context, Proxy Falls are 226' high, from top to bottom. Roughly the height of a twenty story building.
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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 :)
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.
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This is a shot of the beautiful Proxy Falls located off the Old McKenzie Pass in the Central part of Oregon.
This area of Oregon has it all >> mountains, waterfalls, rivers, creeks, lakes, lava fields, old growth forests, and a high desert setting.
The shot required wiping the lense, placing the camera on the tri-pod with the lense cloth covering the lense, and then pulling the cloth away and QUICKLY taking the shot.
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure: 1
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Lense: Sigma 10-20mm
I hiked about 6 miles through some light snow yesterday to Proxy Falls in the Three Sisters Wilderness of Oregon. It was actually snowing quite heavily during this exposure but the long exposure helps mask that out. I've never had so much trouble during a shoot...with all the snow, my lens would get soaked just seconds after wiping it down and my camera was thoroughly drenched. I did come away with a few shots I liked though!
Im posting this on my laptop so the colors may be a bit off...I will check when I get back home next week.
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