Flowing Water

I tend to photograph places, people and things rather quickly, seeking decisive moments when light, action and scene harmonize. But once in a while, I love to immerse myself in finding and capturing scenes that are less ephemeral, making pictures more crafted than captured. And water has long been a theme in my life.

I started doing this decades back when I visited mountain streams hours away from our home in the flat South Carolina Lowcountry. I’ve continued during my travels across America. And since we settled in our high mountain valley in 2013, I’ve stepped out nearly every autumn to photograph our mountain streams when aspen trees turn yellow and drop their leaves among other changing foliage. The cascades turn to angel hair when I photograph them at slow shutter speeds, a simple phenomenon that challenges my composition skills, pleases and comforts me.

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Water photographed at slow shutter speed to look like angel hair spreads into a fan as it tumbles over a boulder in the middle of creek filled with large rocks
The Middle Saluda River slides over boulders in as it flows through Jones Gap State Park in South Carolina.
Water photographed at slow shutter speed to look like angel hair flows over small falls into a series of pools in a green Southern forest.
The Middle Saluda River runs through rapids near the mouth of Jones Gap in South Carolina.
Photographed at a slow shutter speed, water forms a narrow free fall over a cliff of nearly 100 feet above a spreading cascade over rippled rock
Rainbow Falls drops from a ridge along the North-South Carolina state line above Jones Gap in the Mountain Bridge Wilderness.
Water photographed at slow shutter speed to look like angel hair swirls around a boulder in the middle of a creek
Water washes over boulders in the Middle Saluda River as it flows through Jones Gap State Park in South Carolina.
Water photographed at a slow shutter speed appears like angel hair as it flows through rocks and leaves.
The Middle Saluda River flows over rocks, carrying fall leaves, on Halloween afternoon in South Carolina’s Jones Gap State Park.
Photographed at a slow shutter speed, water forms a cascade of angel hair over 20-foot falls in the background and riffles near the camera.
The Davidson River flows over a cliff to form popular Looking Glass Falls in Pisgah National Forest near Brevard, NC.
Water photographed at a slow shutter speed appears like angel hair as it flows over rocks with yellow leaves and foliage across river.
The Greenwater River flows toward confluence with the White River, past the Baxter’s cabin near Mt. Rainier, WA.
Water photographed at a slow shutter speed appears like angel hair as it forms a series of waterfalls in a narrow, rocky canyon.
Venable Creek, photographed with a slow shutter speed, tumbles over Venable Falls in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness near Westcliffe, CO.
Water photographed with a slow shutter speed to look like angel hair, tumbles over rocks among yellow autumn leaves and shimmers with a reflected sky
Water, photographed at a slow shutter speed, spills over rocks in Venable Creek, sprinkled with yellow fall foliage.
Water photographed at a slow shutter speed appears like angel hair as it flows through rocks, grass and leaves on the edge of a forest.
Venable Creek flows over rocks and through a litter of yellow aspen leaves on a fall afternoon in the Sangre De Cristo Wilderness Area near Westcliffe, CO.
Water photographed at a slow shutter speed appears like angel hair as it flows through a stairway of rocks, and yellow leaves amid a forest.
Venable Creek flows over rocks and through a litter of yellow aspen leaves on a fall afternoon in the Sangre De Cristo Wilderness Area near Westcliffe, CO.
Water photographed at a slow shutter speed appears like angel hair as it flows through rocks and leaves.
Venable Creek flows over rocks and through a litter of yellow aspen leaves on a fall afternoon in the Sangre De Cristo Wilderness Area near Westcliffe, CO.
Water photographed with a slow shutter speed to look like angel hair, tumbles over a steep series of rocks above Venable Falls in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness near Westcliffe, CO.
Venable Creek, photographed with a slow shutter speed, tumbles toward Venable Falls in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area near Westcliffe, CO.
With falls in the background, water photographed at slow shutter speed to look like angel hair flows through red rocks.
Venable Creek Falls rushes through its tight canyon in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area near Westcliffe, CO.
Water photographed with a slow shutter speed to look like angel hair, tumbles in two steps of about 10 and 6 feet through a slot in a rocky canyon.
Venable Creek, photographed with a slow shutter speed, tumbles over Venable Falls in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness near Westcliffe, CO.
Photographed at a slow shutter speed, water forms a cascade of angel hair in a closeup of a waterfall in to a tight, rocky canyon.
Venable Falls tumbles in the Venable Creek canyon of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area, toward Colorado’s Wet Mountain Valley.
Water photographed with a slow shutter speed to look like angel hair, tumbles in three steps of 4 to 6 feet between red rocks lined with yellow foliage
Aspens and willows glow with autumn color in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area along North Taylor Creek.
Water photographed with a slow shutter speed to look like angel hair, tumbles among rocks and yellow fall foliage
Goodwin Creek flows over rocks and under willows amid Beaver Ponds, deep in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area.
Water photographed with a slow shutter speed to look like angel hair, tumbles over rocks amid fall foliage at a bend in the creek.
Water, photographed at a slow shutter speed, spills over rocks in Swift Creek, lined with yellow fall foliage, in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo National Wilderness Area.
Water photographed with a slow shutter speed to look like angel hair, tumbles over rocks in several channels among fall foliage.
A waterfall slides over rocks along Middle Taylor Creek in Hermit Basin, on the edge of Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area.
Water photographed with a slow shutter speed to look like angel hair, flows into a shimmering pool from a tight, red-rock canyon.
North Taylor Creek flows from a tight canyon and through fall foliage in its tight canyon in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area near Westcliffe, CO.
Water photographed at slow shutter speed to look like angel hair flows over a low shelf amid a green Southern forest.
Water rushes over a low shelf in Bradley Creek above Bradley Falls near Saluda, NC.
Water photographed at slow shutter speed to look like angel hair swirls around a series of boulder in the middle of a creek
Slow shutter speed shows water sliding over boulders in the Middle Saluda River as it flows through Jones Gap State Park in South Carolina.
Viewed from below a cliff and photographed at a slow shutter speed to blur it, water flows over vegetation edged cliff with a blue sky above
One of many waterfalls along the trail at Dogwood Canyon Nature Park in southern Missouri.
Water photographed at a slow shutter speed appears like angel hair as it flows through rocks and leaves.
Horn Creek flows past the bridge for the Rainbow Trail in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Range.
Photographed at slow shutter speed, water swirls and flows over a staircase of multicolored rocks in a steep canyon.
The South Fork of the Snoqualmie River flows over rock shelves and around boulders in Washington’s Cascades.
The tide, photographed at slow shutter speed swirls among rocks as the sun set shines through a hole in a rocky peninsula.
The tide rushes out at sunset on Second Beach, near the tip of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.
Photographed at a slow shutter speed forms a narrow ribbon of angel hair as it flows a shimmering pond in a wide canyon of solid rock.
Cedar Falls flows over one of many rock ledges in Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park.
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