Cedar Falls, Spring Snowstorm, Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio
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A spring snowstorm lured me back to Hocking Hills State Park once again on short notice. The temperature had dropped, snow was forecast, and I headed out in the pre-dawn blackness for a few hours of driving in order to be at the park come daylight.
I was a bit disappointed that the snowfall was so meager, but a day out in nature is a good day nonetheless. Here at Cedar Falls, I appreciated how the skif of snow helped to highlight the surfaces of the sandstone layers where it had been able to stick. What is also evident here is how the rain-turned snow precipitation had temporarily swelled the little stream flow, and was already receding. Notice the shelf of ice on the right edge of the water, frozen as the water receded, now stranded in air.
The only previous images of Cedar Falls that I really liked were when I shot them in portrait (vertical) orientation. The narrow and tall nature of the falls (it's a very small stream) lends it well to that orientation, including the entire falls from top to splash pool. In the above image the skif of light snow and the little ice rims on the rock seemed to have led me to zoom in on a landscape orientation shot.
Photo location: Cedar Falls unit of Hocking Hills State Park, Hocking County, Ohio.
