There aren’t many waterfalls in Southern Maine, so when I decided I wanted to find a waterfall to photograph I had to Google “waterfalls in York County” to see if there were any I was not aware of. I knew about Cascade Falls, just north of Saco of course, and we had made an effort to find it once soon after moving back to Maine. Without success. However, the land surrounding the falls has changed hands since, and the new owner gave the falls to the town of Saco to develop as a park. There is now a sign, parking lot, and rudimentary trails providing access to the falls. Of course people have been visiting Cascade Falls since the early 1800s, and the town has yet to improve the trails all that much. It is interesting to see the rocks where people have climbed for two centuries showing definite signs of wear.

This is a conventional 3 exposure HDR. Well, not quite conventional. I took the three exposures using Auto Bracketing on the Samsung Smart Camera WB800F, and transfered them wirelessly to the my Nexus 7. Google+ Auto Backup uploaded them to Photos, where Auto Awesome identified the sequence as a potential HDR, assembled the three into one HDR file, and tone mapped the result for display. Then it sent me a notification that it has done so. 🙂 Since the editing tools in the Android G+ app are, so far, rudimentary, I downloaded the Auto Awesome HDRs back to my Nexus, had a final pass at them in Snapseed, and uploaded them to G+ using PicasaTool. It sounds more complicated that it was.