Soliloquy on Eagle Creek - a photo on Flickriver

            Take a look at this shot because you will never see it again in this condition. At least not in my life time. For those outside of the NW who don’t know, this area has been probably reduced to ashes.

This of course is Eagle Creek and it’s infamous “Weeping Wall”. I was able to get this single exposure shot 3 years ago on one of my many visits. I actually got this on my second visit. The first visit was a week earlier when my camera took a bath in Eagle Creek. Since then I have been back there numerous times. To say it is one of my favorite places in the world would be an understatement. I love this place so much that this is where I decided to watch the eclipse just a couple of weeks ago. Standing just a few hundred yards down stream in my waders with those goofy glasses on trying to get a shot. Just me all by myself watching the moon pass by the sun and the slowly dissipating light darkening the surrounding canyon. Combine that with the birds coming to life as this happened, was truly a surreal experience I will always remember. Little did I know that this shot and the eclipse moment will have to be something literally for the memory banks, because they will never be duplicated in their entirety.
But it is not just Eagle Creek. Shots like those of the crown jewel - Multnomah Falls will always be changed. Elowah, Latourell, Ponytail Falls, Oneonata and the list goes on. Because the entire gorge area has been evacuated. The area affected is in the 10’s of thousands of acres and counting. Some of this could be conjecture, but if you look at some of the news footage it will probably be a reality soon enough. All because a 15yr old wanted to throw a smoke bomb off of a Eagle Creek cliff trail down to the creek 100’s of feet below. What a waste. Hopefully something of good will come from his destruction but only time will tell.

Taken on: June 6, 2014

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Sets appears in: • Images of the Northwest

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/10.0, 8 sec, 24mm, ISO 1000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens:	EF17-40mm f/4L USM
Aperture:	f/10.0
Exposure Time:	8
Focal Length:	24mm
ISO:	1000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5 (Macintosh)
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