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Posting this shot is worth the story alone. This was taken in Oneonta Gorge last month during a particularly chilly bout of cold weather which froze many of the area's waterfalls. For those not familiar with this gorge, it is a popular spot during the hot summer months. The gorge itself is an extremely narrow canyon that is only about 1/4 of a mile long but requires wading, sometimes up to one's chest through pools of water to reach. It is quite impossible to hike up this canyon without wading.
During the summer this is great, the canyon is shaded and always about 15 degrees cooler and the cold water is quite refreshing. Crowds of people churn up this canyon on weekends, making photography frustrating but cooling off quite enjoyable.
About once a year we get a cold snap that is cold enough and long enough to turn the many waterfalls of the Columbia River Gorge into winter wonderlands. It is one of my favorite times of year. It is hard to imagine enjoying as much discomfort as this weather brings. Painfully chilled faces and hands, pants and fleeces coated in ice to the point that you crack when you walk. Spray from the waterfalls coating your cameras and freezing solid. Hurried trips back to the car to regain feeling in your extremities before venturing out for "just a few more pictures".
In other words, bliss.
I make a point of getting out here every year. So I have spent a fair amount of time at most of the main waterfalls over the past few winters. But this one had always seemed a little to crazy to attempt. Afterall, it requires wading, and during this time of year, getting wet for that long would result in frostbite at the least and even hypothermia. Probably hypothermia. I will go through a lot in pursuit of amazing scenes like this, but I think I draw the line at hypothermia. Just sounds overrated if you ask me.
The idea of making it up this gorge somehow to see this falls was awfully tempting still. A few of us talked about it and brainstormed ideas. The most popular was to buy an inflatable raft and pump it up and use it to cross the pools. The big problem with this is that there is a giant logjam at the mouth of this gorge that one has to climb over in order to enter the gorge itself. So any raft would have to be inflated on site, and it ruled out bringing in a canoe or kayak.
Then a stroke of inspiration was lent to me on a comment to a photo I posted some time ago, to rent a drysuit. A ha. Even more fortunate, I did not have to rent one, a friend likes to surf and scuba dive and owns a drysuit. Even better, we are almost the same size. So the cold snap hit, I got a day off work, naturally I called him right away and got my hands on a drysuit. All that stood before me then was a giant frozen logjam and a quarter mile of ice cold water.
The fun begins.
My first task was wading across the shallow stream to reach the logjam, which required me donning the drysuit. I had to repeatedly take it on and off as needed because I did not want to trip, or snag it on a log and tear it. But as an additional wrinkle I did not have waterproof boots to put over the feet of the drysuit. Even though the entire suit is waterproof, I did not want to walk across rocks in just the suit and risk damaging the feet. So I pulled on an old pair of my hiking boots to protect the feet. They worked well to that extent but of course got soaked the moment I stepped in the water. Which basically made them like little freezers on my feet.
The suit kept out the water, not the cold.
By the time I got across the first stream, which only took 2-3 minutes, and was never deeper than mid-calf, I could not feel my toes. So I had to sit down, take off the suit, pack it up, and hold my toes until I was certain they were still going to talk to me. Then on to the logjam. Unfortunately I hit another unexpected snag here too. Right before the logjam are two giant boulders that sit right in the middle of the stream. There are two basic choices, you can go left around them, in the tight space between them and the cliff walls. You just wedge yourself in, back to the wall and hands and feet on the nearest boulder and crab walk along, suspended over a deep little pool of water. Or you go right, which requires wading through a fairly deep pool of water and pulling yourself up on a chest-high shelf of rock onto the second boulder. Well a small waterfall had turned the left hand cliff into a sheet of ice, there was no way I would get any traction on it, even with Yaktrax on my feet. The pool on the right was doable with the drysuit, but I did not want to have to climb the jagged shelf of rock in it, again afraid I would puncture or damage the suit. So I had to climb the first boulder and jump the four foot gap down to the second boulder, with all my gear attached. I did not think too much on how I was going to get out on my return trip...
This mini-adventure brought me to the logjam, which really was the easiest part of the whole ordeal. The logs were all dry, and lacked any ice. The water level under them was high, so all I had to do was be careful not to fall. It was a slightly eerie experience to hear all the water gurgling and splashing inches away but not be able to see any of it. I am not used to the water being so high.
And then I realized that I would never have been able to do this with a raft. Normally during the summer, the water level is low enough that the majority of this short hike is dry, with the exception of two or three stomach to chest deep pools which require wading. But the rest can usually be done on the dry edges of the stream bed.
Not so this time of year. The stream came right up to the log jam and I could see no dry patches of note the whole rest of the way. So balancing on a log, I pulled on the drysuit yet again and taking a bit of a deep breath, gently slid myself into the water, which at that point was only about hip deep and began wading.
Pretty quickly the cold suffocated the protestations of my toes.
But by this point pretty much nothing was going to deter me from seeing this falls. I reached the first pool, which is the shallower of the two that has to be crossed, it came up to about my waist. It was again, an eerie experience to feel the extremely cold weight of the water pressing in on my legs, a bit like being squeezed by an extremely cold giant fist.
The second pool was a bit more nerve-wracking. For one, the stream had a good current to it, which I was wading against. The current made the surface choppy enough that I could not see where I was putting my feet, I had to go a step at a time by feel. Plus the pool came up to my chest, so I had to remove my backpack with my tripod attached and balance it all on my head to keep it dry, meaning I had to hold it up there with one hand, giving me just one other for balance. A slow and painstaking little stretch that was. I was very aware of the cantaloupe sized icebergs floating by me in the water.
But then I was through, and that was the hardest part of the whole little trek. I reached this spot and found a small stretch of dry rocks to peel off the drysuit and massage my frozen toes back to some semblance of life. (Note to self, next time take thermal socks, at least two pairs). I saw another very small stretch of dry rocks just barely poking above the surface of the stream just 15 feet upriver. So laying out the drysuit I pulled on my bag, and climbed along the cliff wall to reach that little outcropping of rock, where I was able to balance myself and everything else on a couple of rocks just above the surface of the stream and take this shot. Phew.
Yeah it was crazy I know. But fun too. And that was my adventure up Oneonta Gorge ... almost. The trip back was pretty much a repeat of the trip up, except when I reached the boulders, which I was unable to climb back up, so I had to slip the drysuit back on and navigate the pool I mentioned earlier to the right of the boulders to finally escape the gorge.
I came stumbling back up to the historic highway about three hours after initially left, still dripping water, with my wet boots starting to encase themselves in a shell of ice and probably the craziest grin I have had in a long time.
I am not sure if this means photography is my passion or my madness. I guess there is not always that big a difference between the two.
If you are interested in pricing for my images, or just plain curious, more info can be found at my website: www.zebandrews.com
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Kansas City Police Department
I've shot this building much earlier in my photostream entitled Inception. I thought it was time to revisit this oddly bizarre building. It towers over the downtown area and provides such enthralling lines and patterns. Viewed in Large (press L) you can see more details like birds, security cameras, and reflections in the window. I almost forgot to mention that wonderful gold emblem.
Thanks for the view, comments, and faves.
Mike D.
Another visit to the state of Pennsylvania was in the cards for NS 8101 as it and a CSX pair bring 21J west through Newport
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you may remember,this, from nearly a year ago, and as I was in a similar area of the Yorkshire Wolds a few days ago, I thought I'd use the same idea as last time, just at a different time of day...
After leading a northbound intermodal through the area a week prior, UP 1982 is seen once again leading a southbound intermodal through the Carlinville Amtrak station platform. The train would take the siding to meet a northbound before continuing south towards St. Louis, MO.
January 24th, 2021
UP IG4SIB 24
Carlinville, IL
Repeat after me. The window frames on this building are actually red, but I removed the colour to concentrate on the repeating pattern.
New Adventure Travel is in the process of receiving a second batch of ten Optare MetroCitys, following the ten that were delivered in the Spring for 'crosscity' Service X1 in Cardiff.
Those delivered so far have been split between Cardiff, Newport and Pontypridd depots. The pair at Newport also carry 'crosscity' vinyls and branding for Service N1 (Duffryn-City Centre-Ringland), and have allowed the two Mercedes Citaro C2s to be re-allocated to Cardiff.
YJ65 EOX passes the Newport Wave on the approach to Kingsway when operating an N1 journey to Duffryn in this mid November 2015 shot.
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Samastipur (SPJ) WDM-3D -11464 in lead with the newest sensational Humsafar Express of IR which is ready to depart from CD station as ALP has waved green flag there. 😍😍
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So this is the same view I took with the polaroid . It's quite fascinating to see the different results you can get with different formats!
Processed with lalamartin's Candy action and Flypaper Textures
One of three pieces that make up a small triptych for my solo show, Sketchbook: Chapter Two, showing at Blue Gallery in Kansas City November 4-26, 2011.
6x8 inches, mixed media on board (mixed media includes acrylic, paper, etching, uni posca marker, marvy deco color marker and ink).
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This little cutie must have made dozens of trips back and forth, methodically emptying out the contents of this jack-o-lantern Goodie Bowl. Said contents being a variety of mixed nuts, both whole and shelled - both ready for immediate consumption and/or immediate burial for later consumption.
Our Backyard Harvest Fest, for or backyard visitors, hopefully met its goal this year in helping out our furry and feathered friends in fueling up for winter, which is just the corner.
Today I did a photoshoot with my brother. I really enjoyed it. I hope we repeat something like this soon! We had to climb so much to go to this place and it was getting late. I thought I was going to miss the light of the day. But we had the golden hour. It was worth the climb. I had fun and ended up to be a productive day. I like the final pictures. I hope you like it too! :)