Waterbury Dam Structure

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Waterbury Dam Structure
Waterbury Dam Structure

Headed back up to Vermont this weekend with most of the same group of guys I’ve been hanging around with for the better part of the last three decades for our annual “Guys Weekend”. Photography wasn’t the first (or second, or third) order of business, but since the Waterbury Dam was right outside our campsite in Little River State Park, and the foliage was good (maybe a shade past peak), I grabbed the camera quickly as the sun was setting to try a few pictures. I liked the one mountain in the background in the setting sunlight, and though I would have liked a more interesting sky, I’ll take what I can get.

I did a bit of reading on this dam when I got home today, and its backstory helps explain something we spotted in downtown Waterbury. While visiting the Craft Beer Cellar, we saw a “high water mark” on the building from the flooding from Hurricane Irene back in 2011 that was a little more than five feet up the building. A few tongue-in-cheek snapshots were taken and posted, noting that that was a pretty serious high water mark.

Then we went back the following day, and spotted the real high water mark. At the windows of the second story of the building, about 15 feet up, from the flooding of the Little River in 1927.

That flood caused over $15 million in damages (about $200 million in today's dollars), and killed 55 people. The Little River Dam is one of three built by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1930s as part of the effort to manage the flooding of the Little and Winooski Rivers. In addition to its flood control role, it generates about 15 million kWh of hydroelectric power annually.

This is HDR, although I’ve aimed to keep this as natural-looking as I could. Nikon D7000 w/Tokina 11-16mm @ 16mm, 9 exposures @ ƒ/8, +-2 stops around “correct” exposure as metered in half-stop increments, with HDR processing in Nik HDR Efex.

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Taken on: October 12, 2014
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Camera: Nikon D7000, f/8.0, 16mm (=24mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX (AF 11-16mm f/2.8)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 16mm (35mm equivalent: 24mm)
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: -1 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Aperture 3.5.1
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