This creek has fascinated me and clerkmanifesto for several years now. I have obsessed over its water and shown perhaps far too many close ups of its churning falls and currents. My native scenic shots of it and its tumbling water, its wild animals, and its strange seasonal phenomenon, soon graduated to Eeyore grazing by its shores and tigers prowling its banks.
I'm just saying that besides being a little secret world I love to visit, it has also been one of my chief photography laboratories from the last five years.
I'm not sure I was able to push the boundaries of that mission as far as I wanted to today. I think the small, almost playful size of this tiny creek has always caused me to play with its scale, or to want to, and with my history of canoeing and kayaking it was not much of a leap to imagine myself on a tiny boat racing along on its currents. Trying to capture that in my photos with my newly appearing cartoon representative was harder than I hoped it would be. To be fair this early Spring moment may be the least flattering one for my creek, bare and full of dead leaves and mud, but every AI I have ever used has struggled with alterations to scale as well, and placing a tiny boat in the stream was an uphill battle. Nevertheless, I don't feel my attempts were entirely fruitless, and so I would still like to show them to you and let these pictures fall where they may.
And with that, I present to you some brief shots of the first descent of Shadow Falls Creek:
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