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Location: Looking Glass Falls, Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 411
“Upon the Fall” fall is here at Looking Glass Falls, the colors are showing beautifully as the water runs towards the Davidson River.

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Location: Looking Glass Falls
This is an autumn image of Looking Glass Falls taken in 2011. I climbed up on the wall at the base of the stairs to include some foreground foliage.

Camera: Nikon D-90
Lens: Nikkor VR 18-105mm F/3.5-5.6G
Focal Length: 18mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1.5 seconds
Aperture: F/16
Filters: 3 stop neutral density filter
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: I wanted to use a portrait composition with the camera on a tripod to include as much of the foreground foliage and lovely fall colors above the falls as possible.

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Location: Looking Glass Falls near Milepost 412 on the Blue Ridge Parkway
A beautiful autumn morning at Looking Glass Falls.

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Date Taken: 01/24/2016
Location: Looking Glass Falls, Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 411

Exiting onto Hwy 276 near milepost 411 leads down through the Pisgah National Forest to Looking Glass Falls. This photograph was taken January 24 after winter storm Jonas dumped 12 inches of snow and temperatures plunged to 5 degrees. Increased water levels and high winds combined to create a fierce spray from the falling water that coated cliffs surrounding the falls in thick layers of ice.

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Date Taken: 01/25/2014
Location: Looking Glass Falls
“Ice Chaos”

Just captured today at Looking Glass Falls ~ wow what a day, the ice is spectacular right now after this past week of single digit nights and highs not barely above freezing!! Get out people and shoot the ice if you can it is amazing!!! Be SAFE! See my Facebook page for more details and please read about how I shot this!

Camera: Canon 5D MKII
Lens: 24-104 f4L IS USM
Focal Length: 28mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1.6
Aperture: f/16
Filters: Variable Neutral Density Filter, cranked up
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: With an overcast sky and light snowfall in the air, you just can’t beat heading out of a little icescapes. Today, begin a Saturday, it was quite busy, everyone wanting to see and capture the ice. I got my usual shots and then headed down for several low angle, on the rock shots. I bit tricky today with the ice (be careful), but positioned myself in several good locations that I was able to stabilize my tripod. I used my variable 9 stop neutral density filter and really cranked it up, shot a few brackets and then dialed it down to allow more light to come in for a quicker shutter speed because their were so many people walking in and out of the shot. Thats a good trick… when you have to shoot fast enough to not have people walk into your shot, but slow enough to produce the silky water, having a variable neutral density filter really helps you to be able to tweak and customize you settings to suite your creative and reality based needs! I shot with my cable release and fired off a few in each area. Of course my batteries don’t last more then 25 minutes or so. Trick is to keep another one on your body and then when you see it getting low, take it out, put the fresh one in, and put the older one close to your body where it is warm. In no time, it will recharge. I also shot some amazing close-ups of icicles, so go to my Facebook page to see more and while you are there, if you like what you see, why not like the page? I share all of my tips and tricks and have giveaways all the time! Thanks for you support!

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Date Taken: 10/16/2013
Location: Looking Glass Falls
There’s a rule that some of us waterfall photographers go by called the ten o’clock rule. If you want to avoid the crowds and harsh light when shooting a waterfall, then get there before ten o’clock. With Looking Glass Falls in North Carolina, I would change that to the eight o’clock rule….this place is popular…..Really popular. It’s right by Rt. 276 heading down the mountain towards Brevard and it seems like everyone and their brother stops there. Unfortunately I didn’t get there nearly early enough when I stopped there to try, and I said try, to get a few nice photographs. There were about a half dozen folks set up downstream, so I waited for them to finish and then made my way down to where they had been shooting and set up. I had the place to myself for maybe 5 or 10 minutes when a workshop of about 20 photographers showed up and of course a couple of them had to run right out in front of the waterfall and start shooting. Time to move on to the next waterfall, unless I wanted to wait them out. The great thing about North Carolina, is that there are plenty of waterfalls to shoot, so I moved on.

Camera: Nikon D-90
Lens: NIKKOR 10–24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
Focal Length: 13mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 3/4 second
Aperture: F/13
Filters: circular polarizer
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: I set the camera on a tripod with a portrait composition downstream from the waterfall, so I could get some of the pretty fall color above the falls as well as some foreground interest with the boulder and it’s nice green foliage on the left and the ripples in the stream on the right.

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Photo by: Chuck Irwin

Location: Looking Glass Falls. Milepost 411.

This is near mile post 411, Looking Glass Falls. Taken July 07, 2013

Camera: Canon Rebel T3i

Lens: 18-55mm

ISO: 100

Aperture: f/16

Shutter: 0.6 seconds

Exposure: manual

Focal Length: 18mm

Filters: none

How I Got This Shot

Tripod, manual setting, 0.6sec exposure time, Cloudy Day

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