One of Seven by bmac62
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Yesterday we drove out of Tucson and up a beautiful, very winding 25 mile mountain road to the top of Mount Lemmon. Well we almost got to the top...the top is above 9,000 feet in elevation and Tara no longer felt good after about 8,000 feet. [She felt fine once again as soon as we got back down to 5000-6000 feet]
The photo above is one part of "Seven Cataracts", a series of seven waterfalls that tumble in sequence down the rocky slopes of Mount Lemmon.
My longest lens at this time is a 70-200mm telephoto. To capture all seven waterfalls (one at a time), a lens with a much longer reach is needed. A 400mm might do the trick:)
Comments (27)
beachzz
this is beautiful; hard to believe it's arizona. usually, desert is the first thing that comes to mind!!
Faemike55
To call this beautiful is not doing it justice great capture I hope Tara is doing better
RodS
This is just plain spectacular, Bill - an awesome shot! What a beautiful place! Now here's the kind of place one of those quadcopters would be real handy... Imagine flying up to that cave/grotto, and getting a few shots.. Of course you'd have to be pretty good with it - if you crashed in there, you'd never see it again. Hope Tara's recovered well - I remember her mentioning she's pretty wiped out beyond about 8000 ft.
bmac62
The cave-looking thing is actually a deep pool of water carved out in the rock over time as water cascades down from above...during periods of spring snow melt higher up the mountain.
SunriseGirl
WOW!!! I Love this capture. If I ever get to Tucson again I will definitely pay a visit to this place. Thanks for sharing. :)
blinkings
What a beautiful place.
durleybeachbum
Tara did well! I don't fancy not being able to breathe: bad enough being up a ladder nowadays. Beautiful photo.
starship64 Online Now!
It looks like a gorgeous place. Beautiful shot.
whaleman
Quite a beautiful location! You should pick up one of those 400 mm lenses Bill, you can get one for about ten grand or so! Then you can loan it to me!
ronmolina
Spectacular shot!
jayfar
A beautiful shot and a lovely terrain.
Rob2753
Wow !! Fantastic!! I like this very much Bill it was certainly worth the effort for a shot like this, splendid !!
kgb224
Superb capture my friend. God bless.
T.Rex
You can add a lengthening tube which would allow you to double your focal distance. They are quite inexpensive. I have one for my old Olympus OM2 camera. I used it for enlarging when photographing small details which were too large for my macro lens. I also used it to get more out of my 80 - 200 mm. zoom lens. What catches my eye here is the cave near the top of the photo. There also seems to be one in the lower part of the photo. Interesting lighting. From your vantage point and the depth of the ravine I suspect you're standing at the end of a bridge spanning the ravine. Interesting shot - keep up the good work! :-)
helanker
What a fantastic shot with all the interesting anf very beautiful details. Love it.
auntietk
Gorgeous shot! I don't think I even took this from a long way away ... I was too busy playing with the tarantula. :P
X-PaX
Very nice capture Bill.
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Excellent capture mate. Lovely and great info too Bill.
jendellas
A beautiful capture, glad Tara is fine now. xx
Maxidyne
I thought that might be a cave with some dude living in it but on second look I see what you mean about it being a pool. Stunning Bill.
bobrgallegos
Great capture of this beautiful landscape Bill!! We have a seven falls here near where eekdog lives in Colorado Springs.
EyeOfTheBeholder
Fabulous shot.
flavia49
marvellous
MrsRatbag
What a beautiful cascade; there are seven? Wow...I think you need a hovercraft for this kind of photography. And I have the same issue as Tara, the last time I went to Lake Tahoe I was very affected until we went back down the mountain. It's kind of a surprising feeling.
moochagoo
My wife too cant go too high. Amazing colors on those rocks !
danapommet
A spectacular capture Bill and lovely details!
photosynthesis
Beautiful combination of rocks, foliage & falling water...
anahata.c
9000 feet, and Tara started to feel not-so-good after 8000? That's pretty impressive! That's like saying someone got to floor 90 of a 100 story building, but then couldn't take the height any more...I'd have started tiring at about 6000. This is a big craggy capture, looming into the background, much huger than its size would intimate (I mean the size of the image on the screen, not the size of the sight). You captured and cropped a very condensed section of rock and water; and when we look closely, we see there are lots of levels of depth in there---something not as obvious at first glance, because your pov allows us to see this as one big "vein" of mountainry and trees, etc. (Yeah, I said "mountain-ry"---let it go, lol, I don't know what the hell I'm writing, sometimes...) A very compact and packed shot, communicating the packed feel of such natural structures. And you got a luminous flow of blues here too, they flow throughout the image, and end at the top, where they're a watercolor sea-blue. Complex and beautiful work, Bill.