High Mountain Doings

From 8200 feet along one side of the Upper Arkansas River Valley in central Colorado, my blog is about many things: travel including river and bicycle trips, and other experiences as well. The focus is on photography, not lots of text.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Deer Creek, October 18, 2006

Hiking up the slope just downstream from Deer Creek Falls, a rough route goes up to the rim of Deer Creek just above the falls. The stream is deep within a twisty defile in the Tapeats Sandstone, but you can walk up the drainage (past a couple of don't-slip places) and arrive at a wonderful pool with a waterfall. What a popular place for a (soapless of course) shower!

Deer Creek starting down the twisty watercourse that leads to the falls. Though deep in shadow and photographically rather dull, I was able to use the LAB colorspace to bring out the color that exists in the rock.

Deeper in the narrows now, the stream is out of sight. But the narrow crooked slot is visible.

Deer Creek Falls from river-level.

4 Comments:

At 11/20/2006 7:05 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

These are some of my favorite shots.

anrahyah

 
At 11/20/2006 3:30 PM, Blogger Tom Rampton said...

Hi Anrahyah! Deer Creek is a wonderful place, and these are the first photographs that I'm going to print and mount.

 
At 11/23/2006 8:37 PM, Blogger Kathryn said...

wow, tom. these are incredibly beautiful photographs.

 
At 11/24/2006 9:50 PM, Blogger Tom Rampton said...

Thanks, Kathryn. I've enjoyed putting them here. And the photographing was fun, too!

 

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