This is Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park selectively lit by the warm light of the the last few moments of...
This is Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park selectively lit by the warm light of the the last few moments of the setting sun. This is not some sort of post-processing effect. This phenomenon occurs fairly rarely, under very specific conditions during the last 2 weeks of February as the vertical profile of El Capitan blocks light on one side of this waterfall. leaving the water brightly backlit.
This is my contribution for #WaterfallWednesday. I also moved some interesting waterfall pics to the front of this album of images from my blog posts.
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As I mentioned earlier, thanks to +Eric Leslie for of tracking some of these photo theme ideas! #PlusPhotoExtract
Looks like a stream of fire- wonderful!
ReplyDeletethat's awesome!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful effect!
ReplyDeleteWhat gear, set up etc? That must have been very hard work and required a lot of patience to capture such an awesome shot!
ReplyDeleteI have seen this before, always love it. Someday I will be able to be there at the right time :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous shot, Jeffrey!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome!
ReplyDeleteSo Nice!
ReplyDeleteHell's gate :-)
ReplyDeleteWow it looks like lava !
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing. Always good to see something different.
ReplyDeleteGreat capture!
ReplyDeleteits like the water is molten metal -- superb Jeffrey Sullivan
ReplyDeleteThe wonderment of nature. Beautifully done.
ReplyDeleteMagnificent.
ReplyDeletestunning....
ReplyDeleteLove it!! Great catch!! Were there hundreds of photographers waiting to get this??
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone!
ReplyDeleteSteve Skinner There were probably 40-50 people here, about all that the limited parking would allow. This was a few years ago, and now that more people are learning about this phenomena via the Internet, i suspect that the limited shooting space will only become more competitive and crowded. Ironically the National Park Service is determined to remove parking and private vehicles in Yosemite Valley. This makes photography all the more complicated and difficult to pursue given the gear and clothing changes we need in the course of a shooting day (and night), not to mention meals/food, etc. (there's also a bizarre scarcity of convenient bear boxes, given the 700+ annual vehicle break-ins by bears). It's hard for me to imagine how the thought process of a bureaucrat works; it's like they live in some sort of parallel universe, unable to comprehend the one the rest of us operate in.
Daniel Choi I shot this years ago, and what I was carrying at the time was a simple Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, probably with an inexpensive Sigma 28-300mm lens. Photography is a bit like cooking; the stove is not the biggest factor in the outcome. This is a difficult event to catch though; the combination of weather conditions required for the water to flow and the sunlight to be available are pretty rare in Winter. Based on my experience over the past few years, I'd estimate that it's only available on perhaps 1/4 to 1/3 of the dates when the sun will set at the right angle, so that might be four days in a typical year. I lived only 3.5 hours away and tried to catch it for years, and only succeeded on one two day weekend out of at least five visits.
ReplyDeleteNice.........
ReplyDeleteThanks again! Today's theme is Fall Friday, so post a Fall colors shot, include the tag #FallFriday, and use the new search capability to find #fallfriday to discover other contributions as well.. A list of several themes per day can be found here: http://ericleslie.com/guides/daily-photography-themes-googleplus/
ReplyDeleteSurreal!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is the most incredible picture ever. I've seen those Falls before but never under those conditions. Wow!
ReplyDeleteFrancesco Gola It really is. The sun gets so intense that the water looks like intense lava. It's one of those spectacles so amazing that you have trouble continuing with photography, even though that's your key to being able to convey the amazing nature of the event to others. (Next time I'm going to turn around and count how many people have their jaws hanging open in sheer awe. If their reaction was anything like mine, the people watching it could make the best subject.)
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy Walker Cushing! I had this photo over on Flickr, then someone added a link to it on StumbleUpon, and suddenly it got around 200,000 hits! It's amazing to see in person, although it may take days for the conditions to be just right. The sun is in the right position for this to occur in November, but it would be rare to have the water flowing here at all without a healthy quantity of snow melting above.
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is Wow!
ReplyDeleteJeffrey Sullivan how did I miss this! Fabulous shot! My husband and I saw a Yosemite National Geographic or something movie. It had details of this amazing time of year when the falls looks like this. So great you have a gorgeous image of this! We are talking of going some time. Love it! Nice work as always and congrats on Jarek Klimek's feature!
ReplyDeletePatricia Davidson Thanks, I'm thrilled that Jarek Klimek selected this, and even more pleased that his display of photos it is even bigger and better than the same photos look on G+!
ReplyDeleteWell deserved Jeffrey Sullivan - so cool!
ReplyDeleteWow. Beautiful. My first thought was that it was some sort of lava flow. Great moment
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