South Fork River winter waterfall-River Falls WI

Not having been to a waterfall in over 4 months, I felt that was long enough. I knew the South Fork River in River Falls, Wisconsin was spring fed, so figured is would be flowing enough to capture. I had been to the falls exactly one year earlier and the scenery was quite different. This year there were no colorful flowers growing anywhere, just snow and ice. The falls were still quite beautiful and I had the place to myself. It took about 4.5 hours to capture 4500 images I needed to create the video. The lighting was perfectly even as it was a very cloudy and rainy day.

With the water levels so low in the waterways of Duluth, I headed up Highway 61 to Gooseberry Falls in hopes that the river had enough water flowing to make my trip worthwhile. As you can see there was enough to capture an almost 4 minute video. The park was quite popular that day due to the mild weather and I had to ask a few folks to wait a minute or two before that walked closer to the falls. Most were curious as to my style of photography and what I was doing, so that helped delay them a bit while gave them an simple explanation and my online username. 

There are three main falls at the park; upper. middle and lower. This video is primarily about the middle falls with the last minute showing the lower falls. This waterfall is the beginning of a series of beautiful waterfalls that line Highway 61 all the way up to Canada.

Slate River waterfalls, Baraga County Michigan-Oct 2011

This trip was a year in the planning. Last year, due to high water I was not able to get to the three remaining waterfalls on the lower section of the Slate River in Baraga County Michigan. This year the water level was low enough for me to hike up all the way up the river to Slate Falls, "Feltman Falls", Slide Falls, Ecstasy Falls and Kukucks Falls. There had been a recent wind storm in the area causing most of the colorful leave to be blown off the trees and on to the ground.