Palouse River and Falls

In an event some 13,000 years ago, this water fall was created on the Palouse river. the Palouse falls and river are now part of the Palouse State Falls Park and Heritage Site found in the southeastern corner of Washington.

Here's a bit more detailed view of the 200 ft high waterfall. Clearly, this is taken at shorter shutter speed, giving the water a bit more structure than above. But the real difference is that this image is a composite of 4 images taken at 600 mm focal length. Since I could not get all the falls in with one shot at this focal length, I panned down the waterfall and put them together in software. I was expecting to clearly see with the images were joined, but the water pattern is sufficiently stable to make it impossible to tell that different parts were photographed at different times.

Here, you can see the basin into which the river falls.

The canyon created by the flowing water stretches away to the right of the falls.

It is nice scenic view from here. There are also picnic tables near where I'm standing but they are mostly in the sun and it was way too hot in August to enjoy sitting in the sun for extended periods.