Snoqualmie

• Orison Swett Marden.

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I recently was going over my amazon kindle book purchases and I came across some of the books that I purchased during my early years in the USA. I came across this book about the waterfalls of the pacific northwest which had to be one of the first books other than the copious amounts of expensive textbooks that I purchased. As a grad student in New England, I had access to some majestic fall foliage and some very picturesque waterfalls, but I used to dream about visiting some of these stunning waterfalls in Oregon and Washington.

I particularly remember reading about the majestic Snoqualmie falls and how its located in the, middle of a town and is one of the main tourist attractions. I used to wonder how such a beautiful and tall waterfall can exist in the city center and kind of tried to put together an image of the place in google street cameras. Well let’s just say when we finally had a chance to go to the beautiful evergreen state of Washington, the Snoqualmie was the second waterfall we put in our planner after the other stunning waterfall that’s home to the state, the Palouse. The place my imagination conjured up piecing together google images was nothing in comparison to the real thing, the Snoqualmie is a thunderous waterfall smack bang in the middle of the town that is its namesake. And with a 268 ft sheer drop, it is an impressive thing to behold visually and as you stand at the viewing platform the roar of the falls doubles down on that initial impression.

And now for the negative aspects, the thing I hate about some of the most famous waterfalls is the over development that comes with the exposure. While the Snoqualmie is impressive, it pretty much impossible to take a unique shot here as the development around would allow a narrow field of view. And since that shot has been taken by a million other photographers, this fall is not very exciting to photograph. I only took two to three shots here and we pretty much spend the whole afternoon just enjoying the various well-maintained trails that’s near the falls. This is a shot that I took as an experimentation of the Nikon D850’s ability to focus stack. I selected the flowers that were blooming as the nearest focal point and let the camera figure out the rest. While Adobe struggled a bit to seamlessly blend the images a trial version of Helicon focus had no issues creating the final image.

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