My travels brought me to Leavenworth, mostly because my beer brewing Uncle lives in the bogus Bavarian town and I had yet to see them this summer.
Leavenworth was converted to a Bavarian themed town to help boost the economy when the loggging business around the town plummeted. If you haven't been to Leavenworth yet, I recommend making a weekend out of it if you can't afford the plane ticket to the real Bavaria. It is a very touresty town, with knick nack shops linning the streets and of course... EVERYTHING is themed Bavarian. Before a building can be built downtown, it has to be approved for its Bavarianess. I was told that McDonalds submitted plans from one of their resteraunts in Bavaria to the city for approval and were turned down because it wasn't Bavarian enough... Anyways, enough with the Leavenworth history and folk lores, lets get down to the photography.
I wasn't granted a ton of time to take pictures and neglected to take any pictures downtown, shame on me I know. But I did capture this photo down by the river front park, this is a view behind where the old coffer dam used to be built when the logging industury was still thriving in the town. This sandbar turned out to be a perfect subject for my photograph of the river and then after I captured this one, my cousin decided to run along it followed by his girlfriend and dog with my uncle, a.k.a. the homebrew Godfather, on shore.
Leaps and Bounds
After leaving Leavenworth Kayla and I took a detour down a small dirt road on Stevens Pass hoping to find a waterfall but what we found was even better! We drove along a small windy stream for several miles before coming to a dead end, then deciding to get out and see what photographs we could take. I ended up capturing an amazing shot of the river from the bank of the stream. The fallen log in the water is what takes this picture from oh I would say about a 7/10 range and boosts it up into the 9/10 range.
Peaceful Stream
We soon began our decent back on the small dirt road with my camera slightly heavier due to the amount of pictures I had taken when Kayla spotted this amazing moss covered waterfall right off the road, good thing she has such keen eye sight or it is probably her awareness the caught this waterfall since I was busy playing with the new camera strap cover I had. Back to about this picture though, all of the moss covering the rocks really makes this picture look tropical and it continued to flow like this for half a football field, to bad the vegitation grew thick at the top semi blocking the top of the falls.
Moss Waterfalls
Now cast your vote on which picture you believe is "The Perfect Picture" of Leavenworth, Washington.
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