For the last two weeks, many rivers in Colorado have filled due to snow-melt in the mountains. On Sunday, I headed out to Foxton, on the North Fork of the South Platte River, to make some photos of the river. The North Fork is fed from snow-melt and also water from a tunnel to the Dillon Reservoir. At this time of the year, the volume of flowing water can make for some great images. In this image, I used a long shutter speed to capture the flowing water.
Typically, several logs, and other debris from the forests, in carried downstream, to get snagged in boulders and other obstacles in the river.
I found a location where water flowed around some of the larger boulders in the river. Some of these granite boulders measure some 12 to 15 feet in height. In this image, there was a pine sapling growing at the bank of the river. I carefully composed this image with the background boulder and sapling aligned and centered in the frame.
As the water flows downstream, it divides and flows around boulders. In this image, the water flowed over some low boulders, creating foamy turbulence around the larger boulder.
Moving downstream, I found a flowering place that was growing in a fracture running through pink granite.
Farther downstream, is the confluence of the north and south forks of the river. The south fork did not have the huge water flow compared to the north fork.
One location on the north fork has erosion pockets in the granite walls of a narrow canyon.
For most of the late afternoon, the weather was overcast. This allowed for some great images without deep black shadow.