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Blackwater Falls
Blackwater River
Blackwater Falls State Park
Davis, West Virginia

A shot from the traditional Blackwater Falls viewing platform. I was really excited to see a swirl at the bottom of the falls and even better I had the wide angle lens to get all the action. The most difficult part of this shot was the post processing in getting a little bit of a hold on the lens distortion.

As always, thanks for stopping by and having a look! I'll get caught up on everyone's work next week...no time for love Dr. Jones.

Lower Swallow Falls
Youghiogheny River
Swallow Falls State Park
Maryland

So named by my good friend Randy Sanger, when him, Jason Haley and I came upon this water feature in Swallow Falls State Park in Maryland we couldn't believe our eyes! To the left of the photo you can see the blurred form of a fella that was fishing, I left him in for scale.

I'm lagging behind in checking out everyone's work. Way, way busy, and it looks to not calm down until after the Memorial Day holiday. Hopefully I can get caught up by then! As always, thank you for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

Hanging Rock Falls
Indiana 7
Madison, Indiana

For Mother's Day I decided to take Mom to Madison, Indiana as she's been bugging me to take her to one of the many city's outside the Cincinnati area who's business depends on antiquing. My mom who's 79, recently had a stress test and angeogram so I knew she was going to get worn out quickly which is one of the main reasons I chose Madison, as it's been boasted that there's over 50 waterfalls around the city and I knew Mom was going to need a rest. As luck would have it, rain would set in and continue throughout the day. After a couple hours Mom was ready for a rest, so back to the car we went and I drove up the hill to Hanging Rock Falls. I've drove past this falls several times but it was when there was no water flowing whatsoever. On the way up I discovered there were 3 more roadside falls all of which would need some more flow to be worth any attention. Hanging Rock is about 40 ft. tall, there is no splash pool as it has been concreted over and the water just hits concrete and then flows into a drain. I got several perspectives of the falls, and many of the shots I purposely included cars headlight trails and I may post one or two of those in the future (difficult sky in those shots). Afterward we drove over to nearby Hanover College and I did a little looking around for 3 waterfalls that are supposed to be roadside near on the campus. I did find them but they all were below the road and I saw some trails leading off along the cliff line, but I wasn't going to leave Mom in the car for any length of time to discover where they led, so looks like I'll have to save those for later. Then we went back to the city and Mom was ready to continue on checking out the shops. On our way out we stopped by a restaurant called The Key West Shrimp House for dinner and I'll tell you what, they have the best shrimp north of St. Augustine, Florida.

Lindy Point
Blackwater Falls State Park
Davis, West Virginia

5 Image HDR

Sunset at one of the best views in the East.. Click on the image till you can view on black...

Kennedy Falls aka Gluteus Mash
North Fork Blackwater River
Blackwater Canyon Trail
Monongahela National Forest
West Virginia

This waterfall is slowly beginning to make it's way into my top 5 favorite waterfalls. It's rugged foreground and bright colored rocks makes this one of the more beautiful in the State. This is the second time I've been to this falls, prior to this visit I was one of only a handful of people to have photographed this falls. This day Randy, Brent, George and I were joined by several great folks and photographers at nearby Douglas Falls for the hike down to the falls. Joining us were, Jim Hopkins and his friend Randy, DonnaWV and Rabbit. Except for Randy, Donna and myself no one else in the group had ever seen this falls. The hike down isn't really that bad except that it is a steep decent and there's no trail to follow. The only place it gets a little hairy is near the falls as you have to walk along the ledge, hold on to trees and then scramble down the hillside. Interestingly the most treacherous place to walk is the actual riverbed as those red/orange colored rock are unbelievably slippery, especially when wet. Even with anti-slip shoes on it was like walking on 10w-30. This is the location that good friend Jason Haley took his now infamous spill last year where he half tore his hamstring and had to climb out from down here, a feat I can't believe he succeeded in. Jason would go on to have to have surgery and would be down for about 6 months. He's good as new now and back to having fun!

The interesting color of the rocks in the riverbed was created by an acid wash when the waste water from a abandoned upstream acid mine drained into the river and the resulting corrective measures to treat it discolored them. The event, which happened approximately 10 years ago, killed all the wildlife that resided in the river. Only recently have wildlife returned, but only to drink the water, for now the river is still dead.