Brightly colored flowing waters
Another scene from the Cooleemee River Park in North Carolina — I find these bright natural colors of the river enticing. In the foreground the flowing waters are less then 1 foot deep (30.5 cm) allowing the solid granite river beds rich reddish browns to be seen
Ice formation under river boulders
Yes, it was cold when this was shot as you can seen by the ice hanging under those boulders. This second image gives more detail of that interesting ice formation.
Still posting photos from on the river… 
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Love the coloration of the river!! Thank you so much for explaining why the colors are so love that info!
Thanks. I like giving some background on the photos I post — sometimes it’s the history or details of/on the subject, other times it’s giving some insight into what made me want to take the photo. I’m glad you enjoy these bits of information.
Still enjoying your river photos!
I would have loved to live close-by one.
Ove, thanks. I think this series of river photos has about run it course and I’ll need to move on to something else.
This looks like such a great area, it is no wonder you visit it so often.
I always enjoy shooting here but I sometimes feel I’m over exposing my visitors to this blog to it.
A fine shot of this interesting river with all the colors. I enjoyed the pictures and your explanation of the color effects in the river. Nice one.
I’m glad you like the photo and the explanation. When I see something which catches my eye I tend to try and find the reason(s) it the way it is. I often wonder if my sharing these researched explanations are boring my visitors, so I’m always happy when someone comments they liked the information provided.
Clear clean water is nice to see this time of year, here it is all silt and run off and lots of it. Nice work Earl.
Ray, the water on this occasion was exceptionally clear. I would expect the river to normally be a brick red color — we’ve have sufficient rain recently perhaps to wash most of the loose debris away.
Beautiful photography including tints varies with the bottom of the River, good and beautiful framing, bravo!
Thanks.
amazing colors on the river, excellent image