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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Ninety-four: The Road to Chautauqua > The plunge, Niagara Falls, New York, 2015
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18-JUL-2015

The plunge, Niagara Falls, New York, 2015

I made this image while standing next to the railing of the Maid of the Mist tour boat as it moved past American Falls, the second highest of Niagara’s falls at 100 feet. My goal was to express the powerful energy of the water as it crashed into the rocks at the base of the falls. I used a very fast shutter speed of nearly 1/1000th of a second to catch a water bird soaring through the clouds of exploding water.

FujiFilm X-T1
1/900s f/22.0 at 37.1mm iso640 full exif

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Phil Douglis09-Nov-2015 18:43
Niagara Falls is one of those places where the whole story rests in the "awesome power of nature." However we can't simply point our camera at the falls themselves and expect to distill that power into a photograph. Here I use the falls as context, and instead concentrate on the exploding water as it strikes the rocks at the base of the falls. The bird was sheer good fortune, adding a nice touch of scale incongruity to the scene. Thanks for noting, Iris.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)09-Nov-2015 17:16
For me, nothing is more dramatic than the awesome power of Mother Nature. Here you have a "bird's eye" view of it! Beautiful.
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