Water...

In light of Spring finally arriving I thought I'd blog on something refreshing - Water! Mark and I both have an obsession with photographing water - me more so than him but whatever. I just love the way you can capture the movement of the H2o as it flows over rocks and other stationary object. My first real experience with timed exposure of water was at Ohiopyle in PA. I had an old manual Minolta that I thought was sooo cool (you know, one of those old archaic film thingamajiggys..:) ). It was a mistake for the most part but that's all it took for my obsession to be born.
Now, we make specific trips on cloudy days to find water under treed canopies (because running water cannot be photographed in bright sunlight without washing out the picture - this is one of the few times when lower light is actually appreciated).
Fortunatley for us, there are lots of little cascades and running water just minutes from our house and even better stuff a few hours away. I can only imagine how silly we look with our camera on a huge tripod in the middle of a creek snapping way. Oh well, it's worth it:)
The images in the post are all from the same trip to Shenandoah. Now I just wish i knew the name of the hike:)