North Clear Creek Falls

Adam Schallau — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:11:08 +0000

If you happen to be driving between the Colorado mountain towns of Creede and Lake City, I highly suggest stopping to take in the beauty of North Clear Creek Falls. This waterfall is is easily accessible being just a short side trip off of Highway 149. Here is a link to Google Maps marking the location of North Clear Creek Falls.

I originally photographed this waterfall in July 2004 and a vertical composition from that shoot was included in Photographing the Southwest – Volume 3, a guide to the natural landmarks of Colorado & New Mexico. I created this photo over the Fourth of July weekend while driving to Crested Butte to photograph wildflowers.

.This image of North Clear Creek Falls along with others of western rivers are available for purchase at my website AdamSchallau.com.

~Tech details~

Camera & Lens: Canon EOS 5D Mark II and EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM lens

Exposure: f/16, 1/10 & 1/5 second and ISO 50

Filters: 82mm Hoya HD circular polarizer & Singh-Ray 3-stop Darryl Benson reverse neutral density graduated filter.

Notes: You may have noticed that under exposure I recorded that this image was captured at both 1/10 & 1/5 of a second. Two frames were captured, one at 1/10 which was the “correct” exposure for the scene and another at 1/5 to give a little more blur to the waterfall. I combined the two exposures in Photoshop to create the image represented here.

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North Clear Creek Falls