I plan to have the rest of my Ricketts Glen shots up this week.  If you love waterfalls and you love beautiful places, I highly recommend spending a day there.  Just remember to bring good hiking boots!

Zev

Well, if you like waterfalls, then you have to visit Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania.  This park has about twenty waterfalls in it — varying in different types and sizes.  Some are straight drops, some tumble gently over rocks and some shoot violently through crevasses formed by the rushing water.  There are small falls, such as the Cayuga Falls at 11 feet, while others are huge drops, including the 90-foot drop of the Ganoga Falls.  Going there during the autumn, just as the trees were showing off their colors was an even bigger treat.

I spent about eight hours in the park, making a loop along two branches of the river.  When I wasn’t busy climbing, I was busy being mesmerized by the beauty of the place.  If you like photographing waterfalls, then this place is your dream come true.

It’s going to be a few days before I have all my shots edited, but for now, here are two of the shots I have.  This first one is of Cayuga Falls.  The drop here is 11 feet.

Cayuga Falls at Ricketts Glen State Park.

This one is a part of Mohawk Falls.  In total, Mohawk Falls are 37 feet.

Mohawk Falls at Ricketts Glen State Park

I plan to have more images from both Ricketts Glen and Macedonia Brook State Park up next week, as well as, perhaps, some shots from my upcoming photo walk in Central Park on Sunday.

Zev

A Small Little Slice of Heaven In Prospect Park

Yes, it’s a very small waterfall, but it’s still beautiful, which, in my opinion, is what counts far more than the height or the volume of water.  Fortunately, I had my tripod with me, so I was able to set up and take multiple shots of this little waterfall.  Without my tripod, I could never have captured this image (which is actually blended from seven images captured at different exposures).

This shot was taken at the beginning of October and one of the things I love is that you can just begin to see the changing of the colors of the leaves.  There is just a hint of yellow on some of the leaves, giving a tease of the grand colors that would be there in the week or two that followed.

When I was hiking through Minnewaska State Park two autumns ago, I found a very large waterfall — somewhere between forty and sixty feet in height.  I took some shots of it, but, truth to tell, none of the shots came out all that well.  The amount of water coming over the fall was very little in comparison to the size of the fall itself, and the stream just seemed to get lost in the rock face in the pictures that I took.

After spending some time at the bottom of the falls, I followed the trail upstream for a bit and soon found myself at the top of the falls.  Interestingly enough, about thirty feet from the top of the falls, I found yet another waterfall.  This one was no more than four feet high, but yet, it made for a far better picture.

A small waterfall at Minnewaska State Park.

I spent a lot more time at this small waterfall than at the big one further down the trail.  The amount of water coming over the fall, the rock and the little eddy pool that it formed made this shot far more interesting than anything I could have gotten at the bigger falls.  Which, I guess, goes to prove that, at least where waterfalls are concerned, bigger isn’t always better.

Zev