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Rearguard Falls
Mount Robson, British Columbia, Canada
August 14, 2008

The red rectangle on the image above shows where I was aiming my telephoto. Both images were taken from the same location.

The Fraser River is the longest un-dammed river in North America. Chinook Salmon return 1300 km (800+ miles) up the Fraser River to spawn in the Swift Creek. This is the last falls before reaching the Swift Creek. It's probably about 15 feet, but because of a longer winter (must be global warming) the glacier run-off continues and there's more water going over the falls making the climb much harder for them. Hopefully with each jump, they can find new pool from which they can jump to the next level.

The next image should be animated. If it's not, try refresh. It plays in almost real-time. The four images were taken in 0.8 seconds.

The images above and below were all shot hand-held
using a 80-400 VR lens on my old D200 (F8, 1/640)

Note how the pairs follow each other up the falls ...

If you're shooting a falls I encourage you to experiment ...

1/125, F9, ISO 250

1/3200, F8, ISO 400

1/15, F32, ISO 200

This was also hand held. To shoot this slow you'll probably need a neutral density filter (I used a polarizing filter which also looses a couple of stops). It gives a nice sense of flow ... or you can try for the same effect using a Gaussian blur in Photoshop.

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