It was a bright sunny day, and I almost had to stand in the middle of a state highway to capture this image, but fortunately, no one was coming.
This was shot in Eastern Ohio.
Category: Landscapes
Blackwater Falls
It’s not particularly easy to get to Blackwater Falls in West Virginia, but it’s well worth the trip. Not only is Davis the highest incorporated place in the state, it is also fairly remote.
Once you’ve made it to the park, there’s another 200+ steps down the side of a mountain to get a good view of the falls. Going down, not so bad. Coming back up? Not so easy.
This is especially true if you’re carrying a medium format camera on a tripod along with a bag full of accessories.
I think the resulting image was worth it though.
The photograph that inspired this image was taken in the early 1980s. At one point, it graced the front page of The Charleston Gazette and drew a number of compliments.
Fall Day, Eastern Ohio
I’ve been working on a personal project entitled Across the Bridge for a number of years. It is an exploration of how the more interesting things in life are usually across the bridge.
This image is the inspiration for that series.
One fall day I was wandering eastern Ohio, following country roads along rivers and streams when I saw an older steel girder bridge. What looked to be on the other side was interesting, but the bridge itself didn’t look none too safe.
So I parked the car, and hiked my way across the bridge, carefully picking my way through the holes and missing timbers in the deck. About midway across, I looked down river and saw this wonderful scene. It meant straddling a missing timber and watching the water rush past 20 feet below me, but I didn’t fall in and I love this image.