September 8, 2011
Kicking Horse River Cascade in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada

After photographing Takakkaw Falls and Whisky Jack Falls yesterday, I returned to the well-known location along Kicking Horse River again. I tried some new compositions to take advantage of the reflected golden light just before sunset, then I worked another composition to hopefully get it right this time. It was a composition I had found on our first night, and in my haste to make the image as it was getting dark, I didn't notice that my tripod leg had made it into the composition — doh! So, I returned to make the same composition the next night, and somehow didn't get the focus right. The third time, last night, was a charm. However, the water had been rising each day, and last night the milky glacier runoff prevented me from seeing the bottom of a shallow section of the river that I had to cross to make the image. If conditions had been like that the first night, I wouldn't have been able to find the composition. I used the shift motion of the 24 Tilt/Shift to look down without tilting the camera body down too much and the tilt motion to align the plane of focus along the rocks.