Leon Turnbull Photography

This was an experiment. After my adventure at Sly Park Falls on Friday night, I still had an hour to kill before I made my way back to Cameron Park, where I had music practice that night at our church. I play the drums in our worship band. Now, this may surprise you that I am a wild and crazy, long-haired drummer. Well okay, not wild or long-haired. Anyway, what was I going to do for an hour? I thought about taking some night shots somewhere. But where? I thought, well, why not trying a night shot at Bridal Veil Falls, just up the highway. So that’s where I went.

I do not like this location at Bridal Veil Falls. It is right alongside a very busy 4 lane highway. It is very noisy, and even though there is a large turnout, it still kinda freaks me standing there with the cars whizzing past at 80 miles per hour. Even though I pass by this waterfall many times, I rarely stop here. But here I was, in the dark, trying to set up my tripod in front of the waterfall, hoping no car comes skidding into me at 90 miles per hour. So I did not spend too much time here setting up my shot. I took only 2 exposures. This one was 60 seconds, iso 400, f/4. It definitely is a different type of shot. Does it work or not? You be the judge.