The complete Third Vault Falls photos

Well, except for the two that were published already, one as image of the month here, and another as an almost podium here. Plus a couple other not waterfall photos published in various posts since the 27th. 

I like the mist flowing over the rocks effect, rather than the milky water look, but there's a lot of variables to get it right. Even with the back of the camera, it's hard to know what you've got till you get home and look at it on the big screen. Several of the waterfall photos are only subtly different. In fact they might be so subtly different you can't tell in these images, but I can tell in Lightroom.

Here's a link to Parks Canada page for Third Vault Falls trail. It says difficult, and it is, and 7.4 Km, but it seems much further. They aren't kidding about steep in places.

1. Linda is better going up (as you'll see later) than down. This time of year the path isn't always obvious, being covered with leaves. It's quite pretty, but in a couple places I was looking for the way. There are few markers and none that are obvious.

2. Part of the path goes down a stream bed. In a year of less drought I'm pretty sure you'd get wet feet along the way. Which reminds me there's a couple more photos blogged here of the trail and one set of stairs.

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6. What the falls look like as you finally get to the bottom of the trail and look left.

7. Working different angles and settings, trying to deal with that bright patch on the right, and the dark shadows on the left.

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16. This was an almost podium as well.

17. Downstream of the falls. I was fortunate to have the falls essentially to myself for a half hour, which was amazing. A couple people showed up towards the end, but they were respectful of my space.

18. A tiny little waterfall in the stream bed path on the way back.

19. Linda marching on ahead, as I stumble along trying to be careful where I was putting my feet. I was really tired. I actually wondered how long it would take to find me if I wandered off the path, covered myself up with leaves, and went to sleep. We were amazed how many people were on their way in in the late afternoon, and we wondered how many would be trying to find their way out in the dark.

Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (NB)

Film

Linda

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did. Such a great place to pose a model. 

90 days, or so ago with a Sept 1 rose.

Landscape

The Calgary Racetrack Ring under construction. After the UCP promise to take away photo radar because "it's a cash cow", of course the highway turned into a racetrack. After the carnage there was a recent bout of enforcement, and they clocked someone at 160 Km per hour. I've no doubt people go much faster than that. When you hear a motorbike going up through the gears they're probably topping out above 200 Km per hour, which is mildly terrifying in a car (don't ask how I know that) and seems like complete lunacy on a motorbike. In other acts of lunacy, the UCP have been governing like petulant children, invoking the notwithstanding clause, and complaining that people fallowing the rules the UCP created for recalling politicians are not doing so in the way intended. At least one of the politicians on the recall list has panicked, so maybe it will actually go through. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.

Dino related

Logged out of there, probably for good

I've taken a few vacations from Facebook. When I looked again I promised myself that I'd only look at the top couple items, and see if anyone had sent me a DM. Well, so much for good intentions. I found myself doom scrolling recently. The next day I stumbled on an article about addiction, and realized I was almost certainly addicted to Facebook. The only way out was go cold turkey and whenever the urge to look happened, do something else. Reading a book or going for a walk were mentioned as practical alternatives. 

So a few minutes ago I put a goodbye note on my wall and logged out. I don't intend to log in again, just as I haven't logged into Instagram for a long time now and don't miss it in the slightest.

The book I started reading instead is A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. It's an engaging and easy read. I'm quite enjoying it. 

I got several nice comments about the 'not a tourist photo' blog post, thank you very much! Number 9 seemed to be the most favoured image from an admittedly small sample size.

So onto more New Brunswick photos. Today I'll show you some experiments with time, though not Third Vault Falls or Laverty Falls. A couple of them have shown up for you, but there's more that are good enough to deserve their own blog.

As with the trip to Newfoundland, I'd hoped to find nice waves crashing over rocks. And like that trip, we had great weather and small waves. Part of the trick to interesting long exposure photos is to have something that moves in the photo with something that doesn't move. Water and rocks is one example. Here's a couple scenes I was working, trying different angles and different exposures. 7 is perhaps the most successful in showing what I was trying to capture, and it isn't really that good an example. The waterfalls are much better. Stay tuned.

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Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (NB)

Film

Linda

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago

Flower

Landscape

Dino related

Not the typical tourist photos

I'm going to do things a bit differently today. I'm going to tell you what the photos in the main section are not. 

They are not, as best I could manage, your typical tourist photos. In fact, I got some very puzzled looks from other people during a couple of these.

They are not driftwood.

They are not of anything in particular.

You will almost certainly not like at least some of them.

However they are all from our New Brunswick trip, and you will wonder what some of them are.

As an aside, as I was thinking about what to include, I started to think about structuring it as an SQL statement, because SQL statements written to exclude groups of things from a data set can get tricky.

The Of the Day images could be anything.

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Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (NB)

Film

Linda

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

The view of Bouctouche beach from the tower at the eco centre. The beach goes for 12 Km down to a lighthouse. I barely got half way. Anybody wanting to do the round trip is well advised to prepare carefully, and spend all day at it.

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

Actually, I know I haven't published this because it's an ugly image. Not the 'photogenic' view of Calgary, with the Tower standing proud against a backdrop of pristine mountains, under a clear sunny sky with a few fluffy clouds. And yet, this is where I live and what it looks like sometimes when the weather produces an inversion. 

90 days, or so ago

Flower

Landscape

Dino related