Review of Last years high water in Newton County High Water
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If you can get away in the next few days, make sure you travel to Newton County. Anywhere you look, you will find excellent waterfalls. I would consider Smith Creek, Clark Creek, and Hemmend in Hollow for starters. The high bluffs along the Buffalo River will have small waterfalls running off of them. These falls will not be running very many days, only as long as the heavy rains continue. One of the best waterfall is the one at the western end of Roark Bluff. This waterfall must be close to 100 feet tall and falls directly into the Buffalo river. It is surrounded by trees and this of year makes for a excellent and rare shot.
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Tags: Arkansas, Buffalo River, Clark Creek, Newton County, Smith Creek, Waterfalls
Springtime at Flatside Pinnacle
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The full effect of the springtime colors can really be seen at Flatside Pinnacle. I feel that the westward view from Flatside is by far one of the best vistas in Arkansas. You can see Forked Mountain way off in the distance. But to me the most impressive view is slightly to the left of Forked Mountain. Here you see one rolling hill after another and they are lined up in such a way that they make for a wonderful photographic subject.
Often you can get great cloud formations during the day at Flatside. Here is a shot that was taken over the past weekend when a Storm was rolling it. I kept thinking I had the best shot, then as I was packing up, the clouds would change and then an even better formation was created.
Springtime View from Flatside Pinnacle
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Tags: Arkansas, Clouds, Colors, Flatside Pinnacle, Forked Mountain, Pinnacle Mountain, Spring, Storm, Wind
Gunner Pool and Sylamore Creek
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I had spent so much time up on the upper Buffalo river that I felt it would be a good thing to check into some of the rest of the Ozarks. I had not traveled up Hwy 65 yet so I decided to head up to the Sylamore Creek/Gunner Pool area. Leaving Little Rock, on Saturday the 1st of November, I headed up to Conway, then hit 65 and stayed on it to Marshall, and then headed to the Rush turn off on Hwy 27 & 14. As soon as I was through Clinton, the colors were spectacular, the best I had seen year to date. These were the colors I had been trying to locate on the Buffalo, with all the trees turning at once giving the great multiple color arrays. Once I crossed the Buffalo River on Hwy 14, the colors started to get drab again and by the time I got to Rush, the colors were almost nonexistent. I turned around and headed back down Hwy 14 to where it joins with Hwy 27. Here I stayed on 14 headed towards Mountain View.
This is a great drive that I had forgotten over the years. You cross over several small creeks and drop down into some very pretty valleys before finally climbing up to the high ridge line above Syalmore creek. There are several great campgrounds in this part of the state, Barkshed, Gunner Pool, and the Blanchard Springs Campground. I prefer Gunner Pool over the others, but most of the year it’s hard to get a campsite due to the crowds. I arrived late in the day, and found the campground almost empty and was able to get a spot down by Gunner Pool. The colors all the way down to the campground were as good as the ones I had seen earlier on Hwy 65.
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Tags: Arkansas, Gunner Pool, HDR, Sylamore Creek
Fall 2008 Update
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Sunset
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Tags: Arkansas, Autumn, Big Bluff, Boxley Valley, Fall, Fayetteville, Horseshoe Canyon, Kyle's Landing, Maple, Oak, Ponca, Roark Bluff, Sam's Throne, Steel Creek, Sycamore, Vendor Valley
Update on Fall Colors in Arkansas
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Sunset colors in the Fall.
I have yet to head up to Petit Jean but I feel that Cedar Falls will not have a very good flow. The evening skies do allow for some wonderfull sunset work as many nights the deep blue of the evening sky has really stayed out long after the actual sun has set.
Hopefully things will start to come together this weekend as there are only 2 left before the opening of modern gun season.
Tags: Arkansas, Fall, Perry County, Pulaski County, Saline County
Arkansas Elk in Boxley Valley
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Over the past weekend, I spent some time up at Ponca AR to photograph the Elk herd. The Elk in Arkansas are considered a great success as the heard now has grown to close to 500 animals. The viewing of the herd has become a big item at Ponca and on the weekends you can expect to get a lot of traffic along Hwy 43 as people stop to look. There were more photographers out looking for the Elk that I expected. Enough that it reminded me of photography in Yellowstone during the fall rut.
The Elk will come down into the main fields near Ponca early in the morning and later in the afternoon. I found that the later afternoon shooting provided the best opportunities for my shooting style. If you are working the fields around Boxley Valley, you are limited to the fence line. This means that most of the visible Elk are between 100 to 200 years out. Even with a 400mm lens, the distance was really too great to take a photo to feature an elk without an extreme amount of cropping. To really bring the animals into view, you would be better suited with at least a 500mm lens, even a 600 or 800mm. There were plenty of people using these huge pieces of glass. Enough that it reminded me of a sporting event.
Tags: Arkansas, Boxley Valley, Elk, Ponca, Yellowstone
Richland Creek Hike
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Shaw's Runout in the early morning at Richland Creek.
I had hoped that more rainfall would have occurred in the later part of September so that Richland and other creeks would be at a higher level in October. It has been 2 years now since there was good water in Richland Creek during fall.
Tags: Arkansas, Bill's Thrill Rapid, Fall, Hiking, Maple, Maytag Rapid, Richland Creek, Sweetgum
