Fall River
More from the Goldstream River located near Victoria. The salmon run is in full swing, but the long exposures disguise that. If you peer closely you can see ghosts of salmon under the water surface in some places.
I decided that these shiny wet boulders made a good foreground, less odoriferous than a decomposing salmon corpse anyway. It took more than 24 hours to get the smell from this shoot out of my senses.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50/1.4 lens, ISO100, f-22, 3 brackets each, +/- 1.0 EV, top – 0 EV is 4 seconds, middle – 8 seconds, bottom – 5 seconds.
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burnt embers 
These are lovely images – I am especially fond of the last on. I like the contrast between the mossy rock and the silky water. Also I have to say I am a bit jealous of you for having something like so close! Not too much running water in this part of Texas….
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Hi Melinda. Water is a fantastic subject, whether running or sloshing about in one of the world’s basins. I think it is my favourite subject, at least these days. I don’t imagine you have a lot of green, or moss either. I know some Texans that live in Victoria and they seem to miss Texas for a lot of reasons, including it’s aridity. Perhaps water falling from the sky, sometimes without end, has something to do with that.
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My sister lives in Oregon, and she misses Texas in the winter – those short days are hard on her, as is the rain, and the clouds. I guess when you grow up where it’s sunny nearly all the time, you get used to sunshine on your head.
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I love long exposure photos, especially of fast moving waters like those of the Goldstream River. Gorgeous shots, my friend, you’ve done this magical place justice with your skills!!
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Thanks Toad – it is a very nice spot that I should visit more often, with camera. Its just a bit further than I normally like to go.
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I like the idea of the long exposures and the salmon ghosts moving about under the surface. =)
These are beautiful.
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Thank you Karen. There were so many salmon – it just felt solid in places. So it is remarkable that they can be obscured like this.
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Nice series, really like the last image. There’s just something about the water that really catches my attention.
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Thank you David. Me too on the water thing, perhaps you had noticed…
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Beautifully silky water.
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Hi Andy – I love this effect. These are my first attempts at long exposures of rivers/streams. I will be trying more I am sure. I got kind of distracted from taking pictures of salmon by taking these long exposures. But, at least the salmon got me out to the stream. That and having a coffee with Mr. Toad only 10 minutes or so from this location, which made it easy to carry on a bit further.
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Just been reading Mr Toad’s latest post. How lucky you are to live not far from the Toads.
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Indeed I am lucky. And, it’s one of the great things about blogging to have met people online, and then to meet some of them in person too. He even gave me a great tip over coffee regarding my use of HDR techniques. A day well spent – I got some long exposure drain pictures (to come), then I saw him, then I went to this river (more to come from here too). All in, a good day of photography and related chat.
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Beautiful shots. Well done! 😀
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Hi Ian – its very nice having you commenting on my blog, I have been an admirer of your long seaside exposures for a long time now. And, thanks for the compliment 🙂
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This is a really nice series, with or without the salmon. Around here, a photographer has to fight off the fishermen to get good shots like these.
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Thanks Ken – this is a provincial park, so no fisherman. I am not sure anyone wants to catch river-run chum with a fishing rod either – I don’t think they are feeding by this time of their existence. The local First Nations gaff and net some of the salmon, including in the park, for food fish.
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Well, I for one am happy that you endured the pungeant air to get these beautiful shots! Very nicely done, they look almost dreamy.
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Hi Mrs. Toad – thanks so much. The air was only pungent because some of my shots, with the wide angle lens, were positioned right above and quite close to a fish carcass, and thus I had my head withing a foot or two of the rot for several minutes at a time. My own fault. These shots however were not too stinky to take, nor do they look stinky, which is always a relief!
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so these are each three exposures of varied durations merged into single pics? the white candyfloss effect reminds me of some merged Sahsima photos where you weren’t sure you liked the result. Whatever the technique, these ones seem to me to work very well.
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Hi Geomack. They are merged from three long exposures, but none of them were very long. This is because I did not have the right filter fitted to the lens for really long exposures, and since it was raining did not want to attach it, or the remote timer for longer exposures as that would then mean getting out a rainsleeve as well…. So, I took what I learned a few weeks ago, bracketed the shots and hoped for the best. I think it worked out OK, better than I was getting at the seaside.
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Great shots. Very well composed.
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Hi Gracie – welcome to my blog! Nice to have you commenting. And thank you!
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Beautiful, big like 🙂
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Thank you Grishman (or should I say Griša?). Its a bit different from the river you have been photographing lately.
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