10/23/2026
Chester Creek Winter
April of 2019 I took a late-winter trip to the cabin and stopped by one of my favorite city waterfalls. Just off of Skyline Drive is Chester Creek, which flows through town near the campus of UMD. April is still usually quite winter-y in Duluth. But at least the creek was flowing with the beginnings of the melting snow that signals the coming of spring. Long-exposure waterfall shots were my first obsession in photography. This image is my favorite style, a one-second exposure. That's still "long" considering most photographs are taken with a tiny fraction of a second worth of exposing the film or sensor to light. This style allows a few drops of water to trace their path through the frame and then appear as individual strands of silvery hair if you look close enough.
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