A good friend of mine and I decided that we needed to go on a a manventure today. We decided to go to the waterfall at Minnehaha Falls in the middle of a snowstorm so that we could view the frozen waterfall. It took us almost 45 minutes to get there and over an hour to get home due to the snow and my lack of four-wheel-drive and snow tires, but we made it and hoo boy, was it worth it. Here are the pictures. The only one that was edited was the one of me and Kyle. All the rest are completely untouched. I didn’t even rotate them.
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- I can’t get over this blue.
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- I love how that middle pillar took on a pink hue.
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- This ice formed inside the frozen Minnehaha Falls.
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- This whole “wall” was ice but it looked different at each point.
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- This ice formed again on the inside the falls ice, but it looked different on this part of the wall.
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- I named this bauble ice. Shut up, that’s why.
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- After the sharper ice came this stuff. I loved how it looked.
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- A view of the side of the creek valley from behind the falls.
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- I thought this one looked like knuckles.
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- I decided to look up and was rewarded with this.
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- I need to look up more.
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- I DEFINITELY need to look up more.
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- Looking up into an ice chimney.
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- One more shot of the ice chimney.
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- Kyle looks up. He is good at looking up.
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- The view up really was fantastic.
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- Another view of the valley.
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- Just a peek out.
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- You could crawl in here and look up at the ice spikes.
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- Looking up inside a tube formed inside an ice wall. Those are all ice spikes hanging down.
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- You could hear the water trickling through the hollow ice wall.
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- Behind the actual frozen-over falls. They’re dark brown because they’re too thick to transmit light.
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- Another shot behind the frozen falls proper. The root beer color is from them being too thick to transmit light. They were hollow, however, and you could hear the water flowing through.
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- These shots are completely unedited, and the color was due to the light properties of the water.
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- I love this shot. It shows how blue that ice really is.
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- Another shot of the ice and the frozen water pool at the bottom.
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- Kyle posing between the rock and the ice.
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- Kyle again, posing so I can test my lighting.
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- Kyle posing again.
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- I couldn’t get over this shade of blue.
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- A nice shot between the falls ice pieces.
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- We made some friends. There they are.
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- The falls from the outside
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- Another shot outside the falls
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- This is Steve. His wife was Regina and she didn’t want him to climb behind the falls. He did anyway.
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- Another shot of the frozen Minnehaha Falls.
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- Another shot of the frozen Minnehaha Falls.
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- I zoomed in on the falls again, but zoomed in again. Sorry about the grain, it’s actually snow falling.
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- A shot of the bridge and the creek valley.
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- Another shot of the bridge and the Minnehaha Creek valley.
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- A shot down the valley from Minnehaha Falls
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- A shot of the side of Minnehaha Falls.
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- I love the pink hue that the ice on the right side of the frame took.
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- Ice formed behind the waterfall.
5 comments
Comment by L. West on January 28, 2013 at 1:57 pm
It is absolutely, 100% NECESSARY that I go see this!