Kaaterskill Falls In Spring
by Angelo Marcialis
Title
Kaaterskill Falls In Spring
Artist
Angelo Marcialis
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This dramatic image was captured at a new vanatge point for me, that was shared by a fellow photographer!
From this perspective, one is awed by the visual impact of viewing the two tiers of the majestic Kaaterskill Falls!
Kaaterskill Falls is a two-stage waterfall on Spruce Creek in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York, between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County. The two cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making Kaaterskill Falls one of the highest waterfalls in New York, and one of the Eastern United States' tallest waterfalls.
The waterfalls are one of America's oldest tourist attractions, being depicted or described by many books, essays, poems and paintings of the early 19th century. Long before Alexis de Tocqueville's famous essay on America, Kaaterskill Falls was lauded as a place where a traveler could see a wilder image, a sort of primeval Eden. Beginning with Thomas Cole's first visit during 1825, they became a subject for painters of the Hudson River School, setting the wilderness ideal for American landscape painting. The Falls also inspired "Catterskill Falls", a poem by William Cullen Bryant.
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April 30th, 2018
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