Cohoes Falls on Memorial Day

Memorial Day weekend was a weather-related bust. Rain. Cold. I almost expected cicadas and locusts.

But Monday morning was beautiful and sunny. And I needed a few morning pictures to make my day.

I’ve shot the Cohoes Falls before, mostly using a Hoya ND400 neutral-density filter so that the water blends. Figured I’d shoot that again on Memorial Day, just for the heck of it.

I couldn’t get down to the riverbed, access to that part of the Falls was closed; but I did manage to get some shots from the viewing area at Falls View Park.

Now I know that some people will sit there and say, “Aw, Chuck, everybody uses an ND filter to photograph waterfalls. Try to be original for a change, would you?”

You know what? I like these pictures the way they are. And maybe I’ll just keep taking waterfall pictures with this ND filter until I get the perfect shot with them. See, somewhere along the line, I’m going to find an idea and I’m going to experiment with it and test it out and modify it and walk away from it and walk back to it and refocus and make things right.

That perfect picture may not come today. It might not come tomorrow.

But it will come some day.

I have faith. And I have confidence.

And I have an ND filter. 🙂