This past weekend I went back to the North Fork Skykomish River valley to see if any of the salmon have returned now that the river levels have come back up. The rivers were actually WAY up; so much so that I felt is was a little too exciting to go wading out into the high waters. I didn’t see any salmon but a part of the damaged road had finally succumbed to back-cutting by the water and isolated another stretch of former pavement. I’ve photographed this spot before since it’s a nice sheeting “waterfall” but now the water’s flow adds a nice sweeping motion to the foreground:
I wanted to get some longer exposures and smoother motion around the pavement so I utilized my graduated Neutral Density (GND) filters. I doubled up my 0.6x and 0.9x GNDs to get that effect. I positioned the 0.9x on the bottom since there was more whitewater and used the 0.6x to handle the far-ground in the frame. I was pretty happy with how things turned out. I also poked around Index on my way back to Monroe. The fall color is definitely on its way out but there’s always a few nice spots left-
