4/21/2024 Petit Jean State Park

Cedar Creek Falls Sunday morning.

I usually use Adobe Lightroom for general photography and Adobe Photoshop for astrophotography. For landscapes, I often shoot exposure bracketed so that I can combine the three images into one more balanced image. With this image, the Lightroom HDR merge option resulted in a picture with blown out highlights and crushed blacks. So, I decided to try something I have been thinking about since I was processing total eclipse photos recently. That is to use Photoshop’s, “load stack” option to align three images and put them into a smart object and then use a stack mode of “mean”. Above is the result, no crushed blacks or blown out highlights.

12/25/2023 Flatside Wilderness

I visited Flatside Pinnacle Falls and Brown Creek Cascade, both on Brown Creek Rd west of Lake Sylvia Christmas morning. It was a chilly 45F and overcast.

The former has no well defined trail to it, despite what Google said, but the GPS in my phone worked so I was able to find it after a while. I had to cross a few streams a few times but my waterproof calf high boots were still both and I stayed dry. It will be easier next time. The waterfall might be better described as a cascade and reminded me of the waterfall at Lake Catherine.

On the way back, I stopped at the cascade which I had visited last winter. It was more straight forward with a trail right to it though I had to cross Brown Creek again to get to it.

12/16/2023 Mirror Lake

Angie and I went to Mirror Lake, next to Blanchard Springs Caverns Saturday. I’ve been to the caverns a few times but never this adjacent lake with it’s spring and falls. Click each image for a larger view.

The falls are at the end of a not difficult, one step above easy, trail. There is also a boardwalk and handicapped parking but that view is not as good.

Cascades along the stream that feeds the lake.

The spring that creates the stream that feeds the lake.

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