Mound Creek Falls usually dries up during the summer leaving only a rock ledge but the recent heavy rains have created the opportunity for some waterfall shots. Exploring the stream as it flows into the lake highlights the brilliant orange lichen on the rocks.
We explored the local county parks on Saturday and made it out to Mound Creek Park which is at the western edge of Brown County. We always seem to be there when the sky is overcast. Its unique feature is a 20 foot waterfall flowing over exposed red rock in the spring. Despite the recent heavy rains there was no water, a sign of the prolonged drought.
Technical: This shot can be exposed in several ways. It would be a good HDR image to bring the sky in line with the foreground exposure. A graduated neutral density filter would have been the choice with film. Lately I have been exposing to get everything within the histogram and using the graduated filter in Lightroom to show sky detail. Lots of different ways to achieve the same result.
