The Chances

I wanted to go out to Beale Falls badly on Saturday, but it had been raining all day Friday and most of the morning Saturday.  The forecast had said it would stop raining by afternoon, so at 2pm, I took my wife and headed out.

My idea was to duplicate the shots I had taken a few weeks ago, but this time, with overcast skies.  That would have been possible, had it not been for the rain.

My valley mind seemed to forget what happens in the mountains (and in this case, foothills) after a large rain.  I got to the locations, but they didn't quite look the same as they had been before.  In fact, I couldn't even get to a few of the locations due to so much water.

I thought it'd be neat to do a side-by-side comparison.  The images on the left are from 4-19-03, the ones on the right from Saturday, 5-3-03.  First up is what was barely a trickle on 4-19, in fact, I didn't post it originally because I thought it was too boring.

What a difference the rain makes!  Next is the actual falls themselves.  There was so much mist from the falls this past Saturday it was incredible.  I had to work fast, and used my skylight filter to minimize the amount of water on my lens.  I took pictures for maybe 5 minutes before deciding to finally give it up.

I did have a lot of fun, though, and this time, my wife came along.  She didn't want to get as close to the edge of the rocks as I did, so she remained a bit up the trail.

Now, the NEXT time I go, I hope there'll be a bit less water!