Waterfalls are a great distraction in photography. Finding your composition, working the scene, getting up close and personal within the environment you usually shoot from far away. This is the second time I've been to this particular fall, I wasn't pleased with the first composition, it came out fine, but I wasn't happy. So I returned, this time armed with the resolve to just walk out into the creek and deal with it, getting your feet wet pants too all for one photo. Perhaps my choice of footwear wasn't optimal, I found far too many rocks I simply couldn't walk on because of how slippery they really were. That aside, I was actually in the midst of working this scene, finding my correct lower angle composition..... That's when disaster struck, I handed off my camera to a good friend so I could balance across a particular slippery area. He was apparently going to try and help me across, set the camera down on the tripod, and bam, lens first right into the rocky creek bed. Around a 4 foot fall... I had a panic attack, my poor camera taking its first spill... I've never dropped a camera, not in six years... But this is the reason you research and buy your equipment based on what you're doing with it... Not a scratch, not even on what I thought was a flimsy CPL. A quick dry later and my camera has a bit of extra grime on it, and I have a new photo to show you.

ISO: 800
Aperture: f8
SS: 1sec
Focal: 19mm

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