Today, Jeanine and I drove from Alexandria Bay, NY, to Watkins Glen, NY, stopping every hour or so to enjoy another magnificent waterfall. Pictured above is Shequaga Falls, where the lighting was perfect.

Ithaca Falls were equally magnificent. Flat lighting and a slow shutter speed yield my favorite renderings of waterfalls.

The lighting was very poor when we arrived at the Chittenango Falls, but the cascade was still quite impressive. I shot images from the ground and with my drone. This illustrates how a small change in shooting position can yield a dramatically different perspective of the same scene.

The sun’s position when we arrived at Salmon River Falls was terrible, and I will need to return here one day when I can arrange to arrive in the afternoon.

Finally, we have the Triphammer Falls located on the campus of Cornell University. Between 1990 and 2010, 27 people died by jumping from bridges spanning the gorges in Ithaca. A tragic cluster of six student suicides in the 2009–2010 academic year prompted the university to implement extensive preventive measures, including the installation of steel-mesh safety nets under seven bridges in 2013. One can be seen encroaching on the photo below.

Even though neither of us is a big racing fan, Jeanine suggested we visit the Watkins Glen International Raceway, “the Glen.” By the time we arrived, the gates had just closed, so I used the drone to get a bird’s-eye view of the track.