Flood Stage

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 2, 2011173 views7 comments

Middle Prong Spring - Great Smokies - April 16 of this year

It had rained hard all the previous night & this was early the next morning. All the creeks in the area were raging. This shot is more documentary than artistic, but interesting patterns of the water over the rocks, that are all normally exposed at regular water flow. Just after I snapped this shutter, the skies opened up again with more torrential rain.

Canon 5DII, TS-E 24mm, F11, ISO640, 1/4 sec.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Bill Chambers on May 2, 2011 at 11:53 AM

Excellent job of conveying the rush of the water. The flowering dogwood int he BG is a nice touch too.

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Comment posted by Derek Yow on May 2, 2011 at 12:50 PM

Beautiful water texture, and like Bill said, that Dogwood is a plus element!

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on May 2, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Wow excellent contrast of almost violent water and peaceful trees. Nice job.

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Comment posted by Peter Richter on May 3, 2011 at 6:04 AM

Great capture of this impressive scene!

Peter

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on May 3, 2011 at 10:31 AM

You've certainly caught the power of flood waters. Nicely done

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Comment posted by Jerry Greer on May 4, 2011 at 8:44 AM

Wick, awesome bro! WHy do I get the feeling that I have seen this before?

A monumental river flow was the word!!

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Comment posted by Lucy Aron on May 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM

Fine shot. The water almost feels uncomfortably close. Interesting you describe it as more documentary than artistic. I would've thought the other way around.

lucy

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