One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter…

- Henry David Thoreau.

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I first visited the gorgeous Palouse Falls State Park in the summer of 2014 on what became some sort of a tradition in our family since then, our annual summer road trip. We were young and ambitious, so we planned a trip that traveled north on the pacific coast highway until Portland, Oregon, cut across at the Columbia River Gorge and drove north to Palouse the drove south home via the towns of Bend, Klamath Falls, Reno, and Bishop. It took us ten days to complete the loop and was a bit hurried, but we fell in love with the landscape of the American West.

We were about halfway through our journey when we reached the beautiful Palouse State Park. The landscape of these areas, at least during summer, resembles the deserts of eastern Oregon and California. It had me wonder about the possible size of the falls, and I questioned my decision to drive this far to see a waterfall when there were plenty at the Columbia River Gorge and the Cascade Mountains. When I laid eyes upon the falls, even in the middle of summer when the water level is at its lowest, I was a believer. Palouse Falls is massive, and I later learned that it’s the state waterfall of the state of Washington. I can see why.

I was a relative newbie at photography then, and Palouse was the first place where I struggled with white balance. The place was so yellow that it messed with the camera’s auto white balance. Thankfully I had already started the habit of taking my images in raw, so I could adjust the white balance later on. I recently learned a new way to get a correct WB setting, and this image resulted from implementing the process. I think this was the closest I have gotten to recreating what I saw that day at Palouse Falls.

Taken in: United States / Washington / Joso (show map)

Taken on: July 9, 2014

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Camera: Nikon D800, f/14.0, 3 sec, 24mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800
Lens:	24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/14.0
Exposure Time:	3
Focal Length:	24mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 13.1 (Windows)
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