Landscape photography
Discovering Oregon’s South Falls
On Social Media I see a lot of images of places that I want to visit. Oregon’s waterfalls and geology features are saved to my google maps as “Want to Go There”. A mini vacation, had me driving East to West to visit family and I ticked off Silver Falls State Park off the list. Known for it’s Trail of Ten Falls, a 8 mile loop with many well, um… waterfalls. I didn’t have the time to hike the whole loop but made the short hike to South Falls.
From the parking lot, it’s about a mile, on a well paved path with several vantage points to view the falls. South Falls has a 177′ drop and is the tallest drop fall in the park. Visitors can walk behind the waterfall (if you look really close, you can see some people along the railing.)
For the image, I wanted to show the size of the basalt amphitheather with it’s flowing water cascading down into the bowl. This is 6 vertical photos and stitched together to create a pano.
Images from 2025
It’s been a while, I thought it’s a good time to revisit WordPress and share some of my best images from 2025. Most of my images here are panoramas (several vertical images taken in succession then digitally stitched together to create a long horizontal view of the landscape before me.)
I’ve always wanted to capture a sunset over Hot Creek Geological Site. It’s just past Mammoth Lakes along Hwy 395 in the Eastern Sierra. I decided last minute to drive about 2 hours in the pouring rain from South Lake Tahoe to get to this spot last August. I was fortunate that this particular spot was open and I could back up my car and wait out the passing rain for sunset. The fiery sunset never appeared but the storm clouds made this image just as moody as the weather outside. I guess I’ll just have to come back for that sunset photo.
Snapshots by Kats 