Rivers and Streams

[TimothyH]

How about your best pictures of rivers, streams, waterfalls and moving water of any kind.
Here is a few of my favorites to get things started.

Two are from the Iowa side of the Mississippi at the spot where the Wisconsin River enters the Mississippi.

We camped for the weekend at Wyalusing in WI. We took a short drive to the Iowa side to look at Pikes Peak Park.

This is the same Pike that named Pikes Peak in CO. Pike was commissioned by the President of the United States to survey the Wisconsin River Valley and find a good site for a fort. He found the highest bluff over the Mississippi (500 ft) and suggested this as a good site for a fort. The fort was never built but the spot is really pretty.

It was raining when we were there but the rain could not take away from the beauty of the spot.

The other shot is the lock and dam at Dubuque, Iowa. We were at a friend's daughter's wedding at Eagle Point Park above the lock and dam. I took this shot looking down on the Mississippi over the north side of the lock.

Let's see your favorite moving water shots!

Tim

[toners]

I especially like the first two, Tim. The rainy weather adds rather than detracts, and your choice of framing gives a feeling for what the river was like in its natural state. A beautiful spot.

[TimothyH]

Thanks! When I made the shots in the rain I was dissapointed with the weather but when I looked at the photos I was really pleased. Luck trumps skill again!

Tim

[sandman]

You've picked on a challenge i can really get into :lol: living on an estuary mouth i'm surrounded by rivers .
So a few different ones from various parts of the country .
I've many of the mighty Thames , don't want to hog this post so i'll post those later on .
Brian
1 Mid Kent at Yalding
2 River Blackwater ..Essex
3 Home ground ...River Medway
4 Royal Military Canal ...Hythe
5 included this stream from Polperro ..Cornwall .

[TimothyH]

Sandman:
As usual, I like them all. Especially River Medway--wonderful light and a feel of wide open space. I find the geometric shots interesting,as in your composition of the boats tied together.

It just started raining as I was writing this so here is water from my downspout on the roof of my porch.

Tim

[S_Leeper]

Not necessarily the best technical pictures, but ones of places I like to visit...

[sandman]

2 more quick ones
1 River Thames from Tower Bridge
2 Flatford mill , where Constable painted ''the Haywain''

Brian

[toners]

Beautiful light in that photograph of the Thames.

[Wilm]

Wow, hard to compete with all of your wonderfull shots !

Here's my tiny series:

1st: River Lutter in the Harz mountains
2nd:Brown county state park, IN
3rd: as 2nd

:cheers:
Wilm

[Auminer]

Wow Wilm, the color is great :righton: Did you take these when you came over for a visit? How did you find a lake without ripples? :)

Dave

[Wilm]

Wow Wilm, the color is great :righton: Did you take these when you came over for a visit? How did you find a lake without ripples? :)

Dave

Dave,
I took these pictures in October last year when I was there for a training in Indianapolis. I had a day off and asked one of my collegues if there are neat places to photograph. They told me to go a little bit south to the Brown County State Park in the early morning. Usually there is no wind. So I was able to see the wonderfull indian summer with mirror-like lakes.

:cheers:
Wilm

[KeithM]

From stream to estuary.... and three different rivers.

First shot is the Afon Elan ( or River Elan in English ) - a youngish stream in the Welsh mountains. Having viewed this shot on my work's CRT, it looks a bit flat compared to the LCD at home... :rolleyes:

Second shot is the River Avon - at it's mature meandering stage in the Vale of Evesham.

( just thought I'd mention in passing... the Welsh for river is 'afon' where the 'f' is pronounced 'v'- there are a few River Avons in England )

Third shot is the River Solva where it meets the Sea, in the small, but perfectly formed, estuary known better as Solva Harbour.

Apologies for a couple of these shots being a bit larger in kilobytes - jpeg artifacts were too obvious when I compressed them down to around 100k...

Keith.

[Markytp]

You DID say "moving water" :lol:

Mark

[sandman]

River Thames
A 3 image pano taken from Tower bridge looking towards the city .

Brian

[Wilm]

One of the multiple waterfalls in southern Tyrol.

Waterfall of the river Varonese in Riva sul Garda, Italy.


:cheers:
Wilm

[rob280165]

Hi all.
This was taken in the Lake District about 2 years ago.

[Dennis]

What a great thread. I love water pictures, and these are great.

Here are some from the Falls of Clyde in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Dennis

[Dennis]

This water picture features the steamship "Sir Walter Scott" sailing on Loch Katrine. On this occasion the loch, which is Glasgow's water supply, was being refilled by a day of continuous rain. Unfortunately I was less well prepared than the tourists on the steamer and got drenched. Notice the two brave souls kitted out in anoraks with hoods up at the bow of the boat.

The boat has an interesting history, having sailed the loch since about 1900. Getting it from the boatyard to the loch involved it being dis-assembled and transported by barge and horse and cart before being re-assembled on Loch Katrine.

(See http://www.incallander.co.uk/steam.htm )

Dennis

[toners]

It is a treat to see these photographs from here and there, and to read the tales about them. Here is a sample from California.

While there is water in the photo, it is the sculpted granitic boulders that are the subject. As a geologist, when I look at this I see a river that is not always as clear and peaceful as it looked today. Every century or so a big honkin' flood turns these canyons into mud- and gravel-filled boulder grinders.

The frame, of course, is to give the impression that this is a "fine art" landscape photograph. Hope it works.

[alteredlight]

Here in Wales we get more than our fair share of waterfalls. Nice to see a shot of the Afon Elan, which is practically on my doorstep. Here's a recent one of the Afon Eiddew on the north side of Lake Vyrnwy, after heavy rain. And just to counterbalance it - a summer shot of the Teifi in west Wales.

[toners]

I like the way you caught the moment in the photo of the Afon Eiddew when the cloudshadow provided depth separation between the forground and background.

[alteredlight]

Thanks. The "moment" certainly took its time arriving - over 2 hours, but I didn't want to leave without a shot. Although I had plenty of time to prepare, the intensity of the light when it came had me frantically reaching for a neutral grad!

[phil]

I think this was called Blow Me Down point in New Foundland, Holiday in July.
(Ok perhaps not a River or Stream but what the hell)

[SSonnentag]

Our local river, the mighty Colorado. Well, what's left of it anyway. :D

Shawn

[TimothyH]

This is the Rock River in IL, USA. It lacks the majesty of some of the inspired shots many of you have posted but it has a certain intimacy that I like.

We have camped here and our dogs, (one is shown here even though there is no water in the shot), were born about five miles from this spot.

Tim

[bobt]

I don't know if this is my best, but it's certainly one of my favorites. One of the cascades of Leura Falls, Blue Mountains NP, near Katoomba, NSW, Australia.

Nikon F100, 28-105mm Nikkor, Fuji Sensia (I think) converted to B&W with simple desaturation :haha: believe it or not.

[bobt]

Do ripples count as moving water?

Blackwater Wildlife Refuge, Cambridge, MD (on the Eastern Shore) - a sunset in January!

Fuji S2, don't remember the lens.

[BARBARA LUKE]

WOW some amazing shots in the thread......lovely work.. barbara

[toners]

converted to B&W with simple desaturation :haha: believe it or not.

Great black and white - the tones look fine to me.

On my monitor I see only about 3/4 of the height of the image, and scrolling it back and forth suggested that cropping to the lower 3/4 of the image might simplify and strengthen it a bit. Not sure, though, since i am not seeing the entire image at once. See what you think.

Cheers

[fujifilmnut]

REally wide view of Cuyahoga River. D2X & 10.5mm Nikkor, resized, usm.

[Gurrah]

and - sorry for bringin the thread up again, so late...but your stuff is inspiring and I do have some neat pics from som running waters.

Actually this is from the biggest waterfall in northern Europe, located in the north of Sweden and accuratley named "the big falls" = "Storforsen" in Swedish...
The amount of water is supposedly something between 600-800 cubic meters per second when these photos were taken... this is early summer and the floods from the mountains are just reaching this place to continue down to the Baltic Sea.
I am very happy they have decided this is not to exploited for the purpose of electricity as the value of this in its unbound form for ever will exceed the value of the money coming from an electric plant...

Shot with my S2 and a nikkor 10.5

The image here is a full spherical 360 in 800x400 only - the originals are posted as fullscreen QTVR´s in a lot better resolution on this URL: http://www.panograf.net/qtvr/storforsen/storforsen_1.htm

Make sure you have the QTVR (QuickTime-plugin) installed before trying.

[TimothyH]

remarkable image! Looks like a beautiful and unspoiled place.

Tim

[Gurrah]

HI Tim - it very much so - we do have quite a vast wilderness left in Sweden a truely nice place - where you have no problems with drinking from most any watersource without boiling it or having fears about being poisoned... :-)
It is one of our greates national resources and we are quite afraid of losing it, being the closest real wilderness left in reachable Europe - OK there is MORE in Russia, but then again, that aint a place where you can go easy...

We have some neat places here - we have four seasons, come on over for a photosafari any time of year.... :-)

[LightWriter6208]

I'm glad you brought this thread up again...I forgot how pretty these were. I just took this one last weekend and this is a good place to post it.

Alice

[Linda G]

All gorgeous!

Alice, near the Mississippi? And hey, congratulations to your Cardinals on the world series win!!! Woooo!!!!

[LightWriter6208]

Hi Linda...this was taken at a beautiful trout park about 40 minutes west of us. I was there taking family portraits, and set the camera down on a bench with a slow shutter speed and grabbed it.
Cardinals won???? LOL...it's been very exciting around here the last few days. I'd liked to have gone to the parade today, but there is NO WAY we were fighting that traffic.

[TimothyH]

I know this isn't a river or stream but it is moving water. We are near San Diego for family holiday gathering. Driving down the PCH we saw this Pacific Ocean scene. The wind and waves are so powerful. We don't have a chance to see this in the mid-west!

Tim