Dream In Color

Matt and I are pretty solid photography buddies. We know each others limits (easy for me, with Matt there are none) and also know that we each share a fascination in the undiscovered. Matt and I had planned this hike around the idea of exploration and scouting of new areas. Matt had always wanted to scout out the Graves Canyon area, so Sunday morning last week we did just that.

To be honest though, the whole trip was somewhat uneventful aside from an unforeseen blockage in the road on the way in. I hopped out of the car to examine the tree that had fallen over the road and attempted to move it. Luckily it was broken in half, and one part was easily removed. The other part gave Matt and I a good game of tug-o-war with a come-a-long that Matt keeps in the car for emergencies. With that out of the way we were down in the canyon in no time taking photos in the morning light.

Forever falls is the first sight you see on entering the canyon.

_{Forever Falls}

The light this morning was interesting. There was a light fog covering the whole area and the oranges and reds were absolutely saturated with it, which made the colors just “pop” as cliche as that sounds.

_{Graves Canyon}

_{Graves Canyon}

This is a cool little spot on a larger waterfall. I really liked the way the smaller falls kind of mimicked each other. You can see the larger view of the falls at Matt’s blog, he took a full-size shot that turned out very good. Check it out here.

_{Graves Canyon Falls}

_{Orange leaf in Graves Canyon}

Matt and I actually found this other waterfall up one of the drainage’s, since we have found no record of it, that means we get to name it! I told Matt that I didn’t mind the name of it, whatever it was I was just happy to have taken part in finding it. Therefore, Matt has dubbed this one Split-tree Falls, since the tree in the middle of the falls splits the waterfall in two. The height of this one is about 15ft or so.

_{Split-tree Falls in a drainage off of Graves Canyon}

On the way back home Matt had spotted this waterfall off the side of the road. It’s actually a very large waterfall at around 25-30ft. I was kind of amazed that it isn’t in one of the guidebooks, it’s also not named. Therefore, we’ve dubbed this one Mt. Levi Falls.

_{Mt. Levi Falls}

Everyone I know and everyone who has seen my photos eventually comes to the conclusion that this is “my shot,” a signature of mine if you will. I’m all about taking a leaf from the surrounding area of a waterfall and taking it’s photo with the waterfall as the background. It’s become my signature shot and to be honest, so far I’ve never seen it from any other photographer.

_{Mt. Levi Falls – My signature shot}

That’s all folks! =D

Hope you enjoyed this round of photos, stick around for some beautiful shots from Flatside Pinnacle.

Carpe Diem!