A multiple choice of Wisconsin waterfalls.

Fairy Falls timelapse, Stillwater MN

I had stopped by the waterfall in Osceola Wi and found it filled with too many people. So I decicded to swing by Fairy Falls in Stillwater and see if it was worth my time to capture it. The falls were thankfully flowing which was good because this is a wet weather waterfall. The lighting was good but there was a nasty storm headed my direction. Soon the storm arrived stopping my work immediately. I returned the following Saturday morning and the weather matched almost perfectly. After few sets on the top of the falls, I climbed down in the gorge finished up my photographs. I had visited this waterfall back in the late 80's only to find a lot of the rock wall covered in graffiti with a good deal of trash at the bottom. This time there were no markings on the surrounding walls with only a few cans stuck in the rocks. Those I cleaned out for the video. I hope you enjoy my little adventure.

Apple River waterfall

As I approached the falls a wave of memory came back to me of a canoe trip I took 40 years ago when I was 12 years old. I walked around the bend and found the place of our campsite.
I have seen images of this waterfall online and started to wonder why I had not heard much about it. It turns out it's not really accessible via "public" entrance from the road. It is however on a river access if you were canoeing and needed to portage around the falls.
The sun was slowly setting and the light was harsh but I like the glow from the highlights on the peaks of the falls.

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.

Scandia waterfall Summer 2012

I decided to go back to the waterfall in Scandia, MN and re-shoot the falls in a HD time-lapse during the summer. Weather wise, it was a bad choice because it was almost 100 degrees with a high humidity, perfect for the mosquitoes. I sprayed some repellent on and instantly they were gone. Now it was just me, the waterfall and the toxic chemical I just put on myself.

I shot about 4000 images spending about four hours capturing the stream and falls with 4 weeks to put it all together. As usual, the light was constantly shifting over the scenes adding more editing time to each image. I used the same music that was used for the wintertime video of the same falls.

Shot with a Nikon D5100 camera and edited with Sony Vegas.