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05-MAY-2009

05/08/09 - Hog Camp Branch

I put on my LL Bean 12" waterproof boots and went wading in Hog Camp Branch, the stream that forms Dark Hollow Falls in Shenandoah National Park. The rain & mist qualified this a "Ed's kind of day in the park".
This vantage point was reached by "bushwhacking" through the woods across the stream from the trail to the falls (woods full of ticks, one of which burrowed so far into the back of my neck that it darn near took a cork screw to get it out). I wish that I could have gotten a few steps to my right in order to separate the little cascade from that tree on the left. However it would have meant trampling some of the plants in the foreground and part of my nature photo "ethic" says that the footprints you leave shouldn't be on top of plants.

Nikon D300
0.77s f/22.0 at 18.0mm iso200 full exif

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DeMorcan12-May-2009 20:09
I appreciate your ethic. Your photo shows you can have ethics and still create artful photos. Perhaps it is the ethics which enhances your eye for the beauty of nature.
waterfalls man09-May-2009 23:18
Beautiful Shot V
Michael Shpuntov09-May-2009 16:27
Very lovely image. Love the fog.
Sam Stevenson09-May-2009 15:40
Lovely scene - nice gradation from vivid foreground to soft background.