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I went back here last friday hoping for some snow or ice (there's a little on the ground on the right side). Hiked through a bunch of it but not much around the falls itself.
In case you go, there's a gate across hwy 242 just before mile marker 62. You have to park there and walk up the road through the snow about 2.25 miles to the trailhead. It took me just over 1 hour. The snow was hard packed so I didn't need snowshoes. You may need them if the snow is fresh though.
The hike from the trailhead to the falls took me 45 minutes. There was only one other set of footprints leading the way there when I went and they disappeared after a couple hundred yards. I could hear the sound of the falls and headed toward it across the snow covered lava field. The loop out was more travelled and I hiked out in good time.
I was a little concerned about finding a path out so I gave myself plenty of time to hike out and only spent about 2 hours right at the falls.
I stopped at Koosah and Sahalie falls but the snow plows had blocked the entrances.
This was taken with a Fuji g617 camera with Kodak 100gx film.
Ross Wordhouse is a photographer out of Bend who uses the panoramic format alot. Check out his shot of Proxy falls on his website. You can tell it was taken quite a while ago, there's still alot of bark on that big tree in his shot.
Last November I hiked a couple miles up to Proxy Falls in Oregon, since the road was closed and it was snowing. As I wrapped up shooting, it began to snow very heavily and I hiked out in a near whiteout.
Happy Fourth!
Went on a great shoot yesterday since I had the day off from work. Steve Turner and I hit the road early and headed south to Proxy Falls. I'd never been before, and was amazed at the grandeur of the falls. We got there early enough to avoid direct sunlight on the falls, but also had to hoof it in 3.5 miles since the gate is still closed from the winter.
The mist from the falls is really quite something. I haven't had my camera this wet ever. Time to get myself a weather sealed camera body!
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24-70mm f/2.8 L
f/11
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Polarizer
Cloth for wiping the lens
I know, this is just another Proxy falls shot, but I just can't stop going to that place. As I was telling a friend from work, this waterfall has a lot of personality, something that many other waterfalls just don't have.
We had a very nice day as far as lighting, the weather was cloudy but no rain... just ideal for waterfalls.
Hope you like it, and of course, comments and critiques are welcome as always.
On the western side of McKenzie pass over the Oregon Cascade Range. You have to walk half a mile from the parking, then descend to canyon, ford the creek filled with logs and then scramble up to the falls. And you really need overcast day.
Or, like 99.9% visitors, you could take a snapshot from the viewpoit across the canyon.
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(I speak french, italian and a little bit of english).
I'll probably delete these pics after a while if they don't get much activity.
In the main scene you can't even notice the mannequins in the background. I hadn't even made a store front for that window, but I thought it was better to throw one together rather than just have a broken window leading into the void (my light box).
This is a picture of the East section of the top of Upper Proxy Falls in Central Oregon.
NOTES:
My other posted pictures of Proxy Falls can be found here:
Upper Proxy Falls - Hidden Waterfall
My other posted Waterfall pictures can be found here: Album - Waterfalls
Incessant rain plagued the day; pressed for time, we hiked it anyway, and this is the result. The composition isn't bad, but technical issues, due to the rain, prevented this from being as good as my camera wanted it to be. The rain was coming down so hard, it was impossible to keep the lens dry. After a few minutes of trying, my dry cloth was saturated, as well. As such, there are numerous blurry spots where water had collected on the lens. Not a lot could be done, unfortunately.
On the way back from the falls, we lost the trail and trekked across a moss-covered boulder field. My sense of direction was good; unfortunately, my footing was not. I slipped, and ended up embedding my "rather expensive" Swiss watch into my forearm. Fun. Fortunately, that was the only mishap, and I was able to get to the trail shortly thereafter.
Soaked, cold, and bleeding, we decided to pass on visiting Upper Proxy Falls. Having seen it in the past, anyway, I really didn't feel too badly about this. The watch, my arm, the hypothermia, and the dozen or so botched pictures, however, were all good reason for me to feel less-than-awesome. On the whole, the sheer beauty of this hike/falls outweighed the less-awesome side of the cold rain. Definitely worth seeing, regardless of the weather.
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Proxy Falls, also known as Lower Proxy Falls, is a cascade and plunge waterfall from a collection of springs on the shoulder of North Sister, that plunges into a gaping canyon near McKenzie Pass in the Willamette National Forest, near Belknap Springs, Oregon.