This is so cool. I have an actual backlog of pics to post here! Time to get caught up a little bit.

These are from our trip to the mountains a couple of weeks ago and will focus on the coolness that is Jackson Falls.

This was where we stayed. We got there a little too early to check in so we decided to just drive around the block. Little did we know that the waterfall we were hoping to check out while in town was on the same street!

It wasn’t a sheer drop (we checked out one of those the next day) but more like a steep slope with lots of small drops. We parked in two places along the road.

I love the mountains where the rivers look gold… apart from the spots that are white because they are violently getting hurled off of a small cliff.

I thought about using the downed tree limb to make a raft to skirt the rapids, but then I remembered we had an SUV in the parking lot, so I could use that for my traveling needs instead.

We drove a little further upstream and the view improved greatly.

I had the polarizing filter on to cut out the reflections on the water.

That bridge needed a sidewalk so you could view the river from above.

The best views for us were upstream, but I have since read that if we’d gone further downstream they might have been even better.

I never messed with the shutter speed. I didn’t go for long exposures because I didn’t want to bother using the tripod (next time though) and I didn’t go for shorter exposures to try and get the falling water sharper. I just stuck with the auto setting because it was more fun being a tourist than a wannabe photographer.

I was leaning my elbows on one of the big rocks. Can you see it on the bottom of the image?

The polarizer cuts down on reflections, but it doesn’t help with shadows. Noted.

So there you have it. The first of two waterfall posts from our get away weekend. I’m not sure when the second post will happen, but it should be soon.