Upper Falls and Trestle

Such a difficult print to make due to the exposure issues. On the one hand you have black and then blown out white. And added to that you have direct sun through haze, which on the black almost looks like underexposure. I like the composition, but just don't know it you can make it work with the massive latitude in highlight and shadow.

It works the way I envisioned it. The mist from the falls is that thick. The sun was in my face, my choice of positions. The walls of the gorge are in deep shadow, the weeds in the foreground are incidental. I wanted the sun streaming through the mist, just as seen. There are scanner issues, artifacts on the left, and some dust, there are birds flying above the trestle. The only thing I will change, the bit of signage at the bottom will be cropped out.

Love it that you envisioned it this way, Rick. Very cool shot. Who needs or wants technical perfection, anyway? Bravo.

Nice, Rick. Nice. Let the blowouts blow out. The whole thing is really cool.

Somehow this one got past me! Yes, having spent a few days there myself, the lighting in that gorge can get quite challenging but I do think you've captured a good sense of this "moment in time." If you hang around there long enough, you can catch that structure with a train going over it -- built in 1875 (with a few upgrades along the way) and still carrying rail traffic -- pretty amazing.