Shortly after our arrival in New York, I started a two-week intensive Digital Landscape Photography class at State University College at Oneonta. My classmates include five other seniors (all of us auditing), and about fifteen young college students, who are taking the class for credit. Our professor, Sven, describes the location of our first shoot:
“On Tuesday we will start off with a beautiful hike into the Deep Notch area along the West Kill. Our destination is a 15 foot waterfall and cascades along a creek with moss covered stones and newly leafed out vegetation. The trail is a steady slow climb and is less than a mile one way. Water and bug juice are recommended. This is truly a gem of the Catskills and we will probably have it all to ourselves. ………………. will want to set up her pinhole camera and park here and practice yoga while contemplating peace, for the next month. Make sure you have some bug spray because there are some black flies. I was there Friday May 15th without any bug juice and the bugs were not very bad, I did not however stop to set up a camera and tripod so they had a much more difficult moving target.” - Sven Anderson, Professor of Digital Photography, SUCO, Oneonta
Foam flower growing along the trail.
White water.
Purple trillium.
Little falls.
A little bit of heaven on earth.
Hobblebush (viburnum alnifolium) is an understory shrub, resembling lacecap hydrangea.
More falls.
Painted trillium (trillium undulatum) is listed as “exploitably vulnerable” in New York State.
Deep Notch Falls.
