Cody Redmon - Photoblog

I’ve been busy working through the images from my Smith River float, but there are over 1,300 and it’s taking longer than I had expected. In all that heap of photos, today’s choice is another that stuck out at me - it’s actually a vertical panorama, despite being square format as well. The scene was large enough that I had to produce it in two shots and merge them to be able to include the entire cliff face. It’s really just another shot of a raft going down a river…you’ll be getting more of that, but this one seems to present a peaceful mood, as was the case. It should be noted that this was not a whitewater rafting trip by any means. In fact, it was a rather slow paced, easy-does-it fishing trip on a river that was so low just prior to our departure that we almost weren’t able to go at all. It’s still early in the season and we were just the second group down this year. I’m sure the first group down was dragging their rafts quite a bit…we ended up dragging them in the shallows on the first day and some after, but it definitely got less and less. In a few months the Smith will be flowing with five or six times the amount of water that we had, quite easily more, and things will get a little more exciting at that point. But it’s a river that is definitely meant to relax upon, as I said before…it’s not like you’re going anywhere.