While recovering from hip surgery a couple of winters ago, I dragged myself and my gear out to Great Falls on the Potomac River, Virginia side near Washington, DC, on a cold, overcast January day to try out long-ish exposures of moving water using my new circular ND filter.
I took a bunch of photos of the falls over the course of an hour or so as broken winter clouds rolled by and the watery winter sun illuminated the scene in various interesting ways.
It was a pretty typical winter’s day for this historic river as its waters wended their way through the stark winter landscape and roiled through the main cataracts of the falls toward the Chesapeake Bay.
This photo captures the relatively calm face of this watery landscape, which at various other times can be violent, angry, subdued, icy, verdant, tame, and wild.
