Photographs and commentary by Dick Snoke
I did the scouting hike for the Hearthstone Hikers along with a few folks from the camera club on a sunny bright summer day. The trail was quite wet from recent rains, and the water was running high and hard. None of us had ever seen the creek or falls as full before, so the photo ops were a little different than what I had anticipated.
Most of the time, the pool below the falls is placid and suitable for wading/swimming. This day it was wild and none of us chose to venture into the water. So we shot from behind or on the logs bordering the pool. In addition, I turned around and tried some Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) shots of the trees and leaves. On the way back to the truck, I stopped couple of times to snap the creek below the falls. The creek is getting quite overgrown and it is now much more difficult to get good pictures without shooting through the rhododendron foliage. Perhaps int he fall…..