Gorge Creek Falls in North Cascades National Park.
34 exposures stitched, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
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waterfalls
Fall Color in North Cascades National Park
Gorge Creek Falls sits in the Ross Lake National Recreation Area of North Cascades National Park. The main vantage point of these falls are a metal bridge that sways and shudders when traffic goes over it – and it doesn’t have the sort of surface you could put a tripod on. I have found this spot to not be very hospitable to photography, though the views are excellent. I had a bit better luck earlier this year while trying a vertical “panorama”.
The first photo here is of the Gorge Dam just outside of Newhalem, Wa.
Gorge Creek Falls – North Cascades National Park
I enjoy making panoramas. I am often in a place where a single photo, even at a wide angle, cannot convey the scope of the scenery around me. A panorama cannot often do justice to it either, but it does come a bit closer.
I’ve started doing vertical “panoramas”, sometimes called just verticals I guess. Spotting places in which to try this successfully is not as easy as a panorama, but this shot of Gorge Creek Falls in North Cascades National Park was an easy one.
11 exposures stitched, Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM @ 33mm
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EDIT: I also have a version of this taken with some Fall colours in the surrounding Maple trees
Picture Frame Falls – Mt. Rainier National Park
I have just returned from my second journey to Mt. Rainier National Park. Luckily this time the weather held and I enjoyed nice days for the vast majority of my trip. I even managed to get up to Sunrise this time out.
Picture Frame Falls
This second trip at the end of September 2009, I returned to this spot where the road inside Stevens Canyon crosses Stevens Creek. Apparently there is no official name for this waterfall though I see it called Picture Frame Falls, or Stevens Fork Falls. No waterfall this time – apparently it is a spring melt phenomenon – which might explain the lack of official name. This is how it looked in early July 2009:
Stevens Creek
Martha Falls in Stevens Canyon
Martha Falls in Stevens Canyon – Mt. Rainier National Park. Unfortunately on my first trip to Mt. Ranier the Stevens Canyon road was closed just beyond this viewpoint. I’ll be back there in a few days so I am looking forward to exploring the park beyond this point.
Nisqually Entrance and Christine Falls in Mount Rainier NP
Nisqually Entrance to Mount Rainier National Park
This is the Nisqually Entrance to Mount Rainier National Park. This was the first time I’d ever entered the park, and I made this photo just outside of the arch on that visit.
Christine Falls
Christine Falls just a few kilometers into the park from Longmire.
Small falls in Van Trump Creek just upstream of Christine Falls.
Narada Falls Panorama Mt. Rainier National Park
Panorama of Narada Falls on the Paradise River in Mt. Rainier National Park. At approximately 1390 meters (4560 feet) in elevation the small hike there seemed a bit steeper than it was. I passed a few people who were gasping on the trail. The lower falls pictured here drop about 57 meters (188 feet).
8 exposures stitched, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 11mm
Mt. Rainier – Longmire to Christine Falls
Edit (2015) : I have a new post of some newer photographs of the Longmire area.
Black Tailed Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) near Longmire in Mt. Rainier National Park
The Nisqually River is fed by the Nisqually Glacier on the southern side of Mt. Rainier. Heavy flooding in 2006 eroded the banks. I’m sure I would have wanted to be anywhere near the place when it crested.
Nisqually River just south of the Cougar Rock Campground. 9 exposures stitched – Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM.
Nisqually River. 9 exposures stitched – Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM.
The Wonderland Trail near the Cougar Rock Campground.
Christine Falls – much more from here later.
