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September 8, 2011
Kicking Horse River Cascade in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada

Kicking Horse River Cascade
Kicking Horse River Cascade
Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
Canon EOS 1Ds Mk III, 24 TS II, 15 sec, f11, ISO 100
Image taken on September 7, 2011.
After photographing Takakkaw Falls and Whisky Jack Falls yesterday, I returned to the well-known location along Kicking Horse River again. I tried some new compositions to take advantage of the reflected golden light just before sunset, then I worked another composition to hopefully get it right this time. It was a composition I had found on our first night, and in my haste to make the image as it was getting dark, I didn't notice that my tripod leg had made it into the composition — doh! So, I returned to make the same composition the next night, and somehow didn't get the focus right. The third time, last night, was a charm. However, the water had been rising each day, and last night the milky glacier runoff prevented me from seeing the bottom of a shallow section of the river that I had to cross to make the image. If conditions had been like that the first night, I wouldn't have been able to find the composition. I used the shift motion of the 24 Tilt/Shift to look down without tilting the camera body down too much and the tilt motion to align the plane of focus along the rocks.

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