A visit to the Descanso Gardens with family.
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Descanso Gardens
Tag: waterfall
Close to Land’s End
In the distance of the first picture you can see some white buildings. That’s as close as we got to Land’s End, the most westerly point in the country. Somewhere along the way we passed a Bronze Age barrow cemetery but it wasn’t tremendously apparent where it began and ended. If you click to enlarge the picture of the beach (click the post title first if you’re seeing this in an email), you can see a couple of people down there to provide some sense of scale and distance. As we walked back from almost-Land’s End to Nanjizal we came upon the same herd of horses who again tried nibbling at my clothes (while one napped).
Torc
Screebe Falls
Our first stop after leaving Galway town was a roadside stop to capture the Screebe Falls, but there were some other things of interest there as well. Click any image to see them all enlarged (in your browser).
Ambleside
Our first stop was Ambleside. After a brief nap following our almost 30-hour odyssey, we walked up to the Stock Ghyll Force, a small waterfall, through Stock Ghyll Park, taking a first few pictures along the way. Click any image to see them each full-size.
Shortfall
In the middle of April I was able to take landscape pictures in the park without people in them. By the last weekend in April that was no longer so easy.
Night Falls
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Just in case the drama and majesty of the Falls are not enough, they are lit up at night in changing colors and throughout the tourist season there is a nightly fireworks display. Some years ago I remember setting up my camera on a tripod and taking long, 30-second exposures at low ISOs. These were shot handheld on automatic through my hotel-room window with some minimal noise reduction, contrast and a few other minor adjustments. (Click any image to see them all enlarged.)
Over the Rainbow
One effect of all the water spray and mist from the Falls is rainbows. Lots of wet phones captured them – thank goodness my Fuji is weatherproof!
Tripping the Lake Fantastic
Another obligatory stop on the tourist trail is the boat ride by the Falls, in which you get drenched with water spraying off the waterfalls. Here, before the deluge, you can see a bird taking off from the water and the skips behind it.
Important Bird Area
The Niagara Falls area has been designated a “globally significant Important Bird Area,” an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria, developed identified by BirdLife International, as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
Danger
Those are the American Falls in the background. We only saw one young man ignoring the clear message of this sign and performing a handstand on the outside of the railing for his girlfriend to photograph.
Bird, Falls
The bird gives some sense of the scale. The haze is caused by all the water misting into the air.
Watery Portal
After waiting to get down the elevator to the tunnels behind the falls, you line-up again to get your few seconds at one of these openings right behind the raging falls. Most people take selfies or family-portrait selfies. This image really doesn’t do justice to the full drama and fury of the water cascading past, right in front of you.
First Look at the Falls
Looking down from a height
through the flowers of the promenade
The American-side Falls are only about half the height of the Canadian-side.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
The Falls really are stunning. I will try not to bore with too many, too touristy shots but it’s hard not to want to capture some of their majesty from every angle, as hordes of tourists were doing with cameras and phones. Click any image to see them all enlarged.
The Falls
Broken Water
Waterfall
Part of the Gold Creek Salmon Bake package tour is walking back from dinner to see this pretty little waterfall.
Looking for Cooper’s Cave
Somewhere around here is the inspiration for James Fenimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans. Today it is heavily fenced all about so one can scarcely see more than this. Somewhere near here is the famous cave, un-viewable from behind the strong gates all about.
Either Way to the Falls
The Falls
