[pgflyer1]

Hello Matt & All:
I've been doing my homework here too. Seeing I'm on a dail-up connection, it's a little hard to get somethings off the internet. So I've been hunting topo maps and found some updated topo's to view. They are 7.5 minute maps of New York state. I just downloaded the map of "jamesville area" and they are "tiff" format, it took me about 5 minutes to download. What I was thinking of doing was to upload the map to a new webshot album. It would be a private album that only NY Falls members could download ? I could update maps with falls locations that members send me the coordinates of new falls. Just thinking about this at the moment !!! Let me know what you think ? I don't want to step on anyone's toes here.........
I found another dam falls in the Oswego area while out on my locale run yesterday. Got to check and see if it's in the listings here first ! If not I will go there and take some some pics. Also I have an old Pentax "spotmatic" camera that I'm going to see if it works OK ? ! I used to shoot pictures in 35 mm and 2 1/4 formats in the past years of everything I liked. With the digital cameras avialable, it just seemed earier to use something simple and quick to take pics with.
Have a nice day !
Marty

[Matt]

Sounds like a good plan Marty.

[pgflyer1]

Here's the website I've been looking at for 7.5 minute maps: http://libremap.org/ . Once you pull up the page, click "data",
then "New York", and finnally "view the entire list of USGS". Really good detail too !!!
Maybe someone with a broad band connection can work out details of the maps. I can't seem to save maps after I've added falls names to a map ???
The weather is suppose to be great this weekend ! Wooohooo - Thank you !
Got me sites on another falls in my area to tke some pics of.
Have a nice all !

[pgflyer1]

Hello All:
I have my sites set on another falls. I'm going to it this weekend too ! Also I bought a Nikcon coolpix L100 camera for next set of pictures. And shortly I'm going to be a broadbander too !!! I hope everyone has a very nice holiday weekend.

Marty

[Matt]

A new camera and a new waterfall. Sounds good to me.

[pgflyer1]

I took my new Nikon L100 out and took a few pictures of a couple of creeks in my area. The camera has 10.1 MP and a 15x zoom lens on it. And I got the software up and running on my computer too. ( you don't need SP3 either) !!
Below are a couple of pictures I took. Looking forward to my next quest now !

[cbobcat49]

Very nice reflections in that first shot!

[Matt]

I think that camera is working great for you. But probably you are working well for it too. It looks like you are crafting some classic compositions there.

[hobkyl]

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v ... &encType=1

Anyone know anything about Wagener Glen? I stopped by there a few weekends ago and found postings. I wrote down the information and sent them a letter to request permission, but havent heard back from anyone. Supposedly owned by the WE & PK Trust (whoever that is).

[pgflyer1]

Thank you Matt for the complement ! In the last few months I've viewed topo maps around my area and went to some possible waterfalls sites. Two that came up within the last couple of weekends look good BUT have to "creek walked", because all the land is posted on both sides of them. There located in Amber NY, Each one has a stream flowing to the main road, "Otisco valley road". The Amber gulf stream was running fairly well, even though we haven't had much rain in past. The other just south of amber gulf was less flowing. I use USGA topo maps, thank you to the person that posted to website !! The "GEO" toolbar works really nice too. My new waterfalls is on a friends private family land. He asked me to come over and take pictures of it for his family and myself too. He tells me that in parts of the waterfalls, you have to climb up by tree trunks because of the steep banks. Looking forward to going there this weekend, we've been getting rain here the other day and some more Thursday & Friday too. I'll go Sunday suppose to be a nice day... PG

[pgflyer1]

I just got done uploading my new waterfalls pictures to my webpage: http://community.webshots.com/album/573 ... ty&start=0. Here is one of the pictures from the collection. I also put in a small map to show our route. If there's ever a next time for me ? I'll be sure to take ropes and my harnese and just start at the top and work my way down to the bottom. And only have climb out once. It took us about 2 1/2 hours to complete the trip. Below is a picture of part of my adventure !
Marty

[champy1013]

Thank you Matt for the complement ! In the last few months I've viewed topo maps around my area and went to some possible waterfalls sites. Two that came up within the last couple of weekends look good BUT have to "creek walked", because all the land is posted on both sides of them. There located in Amber NY, Each one has a stream flowing to the main road, "Otisco valley road". The Amber gulf stream was running fairly well, even though we haven't had much rain in past. The other just south of amber gulf was less flowing. I use USGA topo maps, thank you to the person that posted to website !! The "GEO" toolbar works really nice too. My new waterfalls is on a friends private family land. He asked me to come over and take pictures of it for his family and myself too. He tells me that in parts of the waterfalls, you have to climb up by tree trunks because of the steep banks. Looking forward to going there this weekend, we've been getting rain here the other day and some more Thursday & Friday too. I'll go Sunday suppose to be a nice day... PG

You said that the land was posted on both sides - I would be very, very careful when stream walking then. Generally speaking, if the land on both sides of a stream bed is posted, you cannot enter unless it is a navigable body of water, and then you must be in a craft of some type because property designations go into the streambed as well. I did a lot of research on this because I was trying to figure out if I could fish in an area where a woman had posted the land - turns out I couldn't...even if I was in a boat and they don't allow fishing, I could only use the boat for transport from point a to b.....

[pgflyer1]

Just stopped in to see whats going on ! I plan on going back to Newton Falls in spring time to capture some pictures and video of the main falls. Also I've was out on a delivery recently and talked with a customer about waterfalls in his area. It seems he has one on his property near his cabin. I've checked maps and it seems nobody else even considered this area. He says the falls is about 25 feet high and the it's mostly shale rock in and around falls. I'm looking forward to getting some pictures and videos of this one also in spring thaw.. I put a test video clip on my webpage of the main falls in Marcellus,NY. Just to try out the video aspect on my new camera. I can't believe all the great shots in here. Your all amazing when it comes to taking pictures !!! I love coming in and viewing the pictures - Keep up the great work ! PG
Went back 3/21/2010 and made a video of main falls: http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/5730 ... t=outdoors

[pgflyer1]

A few weeks ago I went out for a drive and found a couple small waterfalls. I took pictures of them, just to put on my computer for background pics. I did not notice anything unusual in the pictures I was taking UNTIL I put one of them on my desktop. In the forground mid-stream was a rock that had a face of what looked like a "barking dog head" on it.

This is a first for me, never found something like this in any of my picture takings. Thought I'd shsre it with everyone here !
Looking forward to spring too ! I have a waterfalls that no one knows about thats approx. 25 feet tall on private property. I know the owner from delivering paint supplies too. Should be interesting to shoot. It's in the southern tully area. Also my friend wants me to come back and take pictures of the main falls at his place in spring - Newton Falls. The ravine has such steep sides with all the run-off and spring fed, that it should make for some hopefully great pictures and videos too !
Have a nice day All.............
Marty

[backpacker]

nice,
I see the head it looks like it's formed from ice