Bear Pen Branch Natural Bridge
Bear Pen Branch Bridge Falls
Bear Pen Branch
Wolfe County
Kentucky
Back in July my good friend Chris Morris and I got the opportunity to visit a natural bridge that has been on my bucket list for years. Up until recently it was a double bridge with two spans over top of one another but sadly the lower span collapsed probably because of debris impacting it in the creek. It’s not often I am completely taken by surprise but even with the lower span gone this was immediately an all time favorite arch. Seriously, there is a waterfall flowing right through it. Below the falls, a long shallow splashpool which ended at another waterfall with another natural bridge right next to it! Wow! Of all the years I’ve been shooting waterfalls I have simply got in the water getting my shoes and socks wet and dealing with it for the day but at Chris’s suggestion for the first time I took off my shoes and socks and waded the splash pool. Cold? Yes, but that didn’t matter, wading around in a shallow pool on a hot July morning at a waterfall and a natural bridge, it just doesn’t get any better than that!
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Fulling Mill Falls
Shawnee Run Creek
Shaker Village
Mercer County
Kentucky
A super last minute decision Sunday had myself and good friend Adam Thompson heading down US 68 out of Lexington Kentucky to Shaker Village for some adventure! It had been raining most of the morning there and I couldn’t take watching it anymore so I asked Adam around noon if he was up for going out to shoot. Of course he was too, so after stopping by the overlook at High Bridge and the old US-68 tunnel we finally headed down to Shaker Village for the moderate but short hike to Fulling Mill Falls. One of Kentucky’s more unique falls, it emerges from the side of the hill about 20 feet above Shawnee Run Creek across from the remains of the old Fulling Mill. Seems to me I read somewhere the waterfall is man made. Though a collapsed tree just downstream from the falls obstructed some of our perspectives we still found plenty upstream and across from where it emerges. Time passed quickly as we ended up spending around an hour and a half enjoying the falls for some much needed waterfall therapy!
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Upper Bell Falls
Unnamed Stream
Red River Gorge Geological Area
Clifty Wilderness
Powell County
Kentucky
Just before the earth stopped I had made my last day out on a trip down to the Red River Gorge with my good friend Adam Thompson visiting some new to us waterfalls and arches. Having not enough time to do any exploring we decided to hit Bell Falls and Upper Bell Falls along the RRG Scenic Drive. Here is Upper Bell Falls, a 7 or so foot tall waterfall that requires a steep but manageable ascent. Perfect flow and great light made this little side trip from our main objectives of the day well worth it! This was my last photograph for two months due to Covid-19.
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Freedom Fallls
UnNamed Creek
Freedom Falls Cabin
Red River Gorge Getaways
Wolfe County
Kentucky
Explore #44
Just as the pandemic really began to take over our lives, I got to visit a privately owned waterfall located in Wolfe County, Kentucky! I had seen a video of the falls in the Kentucky Waterfalls, Arches and Landscapes group on Facebook and asked the land owner how he would feel if I could shoot the falls and we worked something out. A month or so later myself and good friend Adam Thompson drove down to shoot the falls. To be honest you I was not ready for the size or the beauty of what awaited us. A 35 - 40 foot two tier waterfall in a beautiful boulder strewn grotto and to top it off, a cabin. Yes a cabin. I was completely blown away. This is an upper view of the falls, a place I could spend hours. The Freedom Falls Cabin is available for rent via Red River Gorge Getaways. I'll be honest, it's a pretty sweet set up.
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Horseshoe Falls
Muir Valley Nature Preserve and Climbing Area
Wolfe County
Kentucky
Here's a shot of the towering Horseshoe Falls in the Muir Valley Preserve near Kentucky's, Red River Gorge when we visted a few weeks ago! Normally but a trickle, it was worth every bit the steep scramble to get to the base!
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