Eventail waterfall on Hérisson river

Eventail waterfall on Hérisson river

 

Eventail waterfall is probably the most famous of all the Hérisson waterfalls for two reasons : It's the tallest fall and access is really easy (a few minutes walk on a good path).

 

Water falling

 

More images of Hérisson waterfalls here.

 

Springtime moment in Hérisson river

Hérisson river near Gour Bleu waterfall

 

One more photo from this famous waterfall range.
You can find all my posts about this river here and all my images here.

Evening light in Hérisson waterfalls

Gour Bleu waterfall on Hérisson river

 

Grand Saut waterfall on river Hérisson

Grand Saut waterfall on river Hérisson

 

Hérisson waterfalls is the name of a famous french waterfalls range in Jura department (see more here).
I returned there a few days ago for the first time since my first visit in 2011 and i was glad to find a decent water level in the river and a kind freshness in the valley.

Grand Saut is not the most well known of all the waterfalls on the river (probably because one has to leave the main path) but i find the place really beautiful.

Note :
All my images about these waterfalls are here.

Saut Girard waterfall on Herisson river - Jura

Saut Girard waterfall on Hérisson river

Another one from my very short visit to Hérisson waterfalls in July.
Thos one was done in the very ultimate sunrays of the day.


Today in the early morning, i went once more to Haut Jura Natural Park.
It was better than the last times : I could make a few landscapes images before the rain was too strong :)

Herisson river in Jura forest

Hérisson river through Jura forest

The Hérisson river, famous for its waterfalls running through Jura forest somewhere between Gour Bleu waterfall and Saut Girard waterfall.

Gour Bleu in Herisson waterfalls - Jura

Gour Bleu waterfall in Jura forest

Another view of this beautiful waterfall on the Hérisson river.

Unlike the preceding one, this one was done without any filter and has a very shorter exposure. The most obvious difference in on the river and not on the waterfall itself.

Gour Bleu in Herisson waterfalls - Long exposure with Hoya ND 400

Gour Bleu in Hérisson waterfalls

If you want to read a little more about the Hérisson range of waterfalls you can have a look at my previous post.

Gour Bleu is my fav from the 2 waterfalls i visited during these first days.
This image was done in the end of afternoon and the long exposure of 123 seconds was obtained with a very dark ND filter (Hoya ND 400).

Weekly commented photo # 29 - Saut Girard in Herisson waterfalls

Saut Girard in Hérisson waterfalls


Hérisson river runs in Jura mountains and offers one of the most famous range of waterfalls in France.

If you look for an english translation of the word Hérisson you will find things like Hedgehog or Urchin but the name of the river doesn't come from this pretty animal. It comes from Yrisson which means sacred waters in old jura language.

I wanted to visit this area for a long time but i never took any time for that when i was living in Provence. Now i'm closer and it's easier.
I went there for a few family holidays at the end of the past week. It was not intended to be a photography trip but decently i couldn't go there without a camera.

From top to bottom of the river, there are seven main waterfalls :

• Saut Girard
• Moulin Jeunet
• Saut de la Forge
• Château Garnier
• Gour Bleu
• Grand Saut
• Eventail

The river runs mostly in the forest and autumn is probably the best season for beautiful photography. In summer beautiful lights are really shorts in time and i didn't want to spend most of my days running from top to bottom, looking for nice point of views and trying to guess when the light would be at its best on each waterfall.
So, before leaving home i did some internet searches and decided to work in two places :

• Saut Girard, because the access is easy.
• Gour Bleu, because it's really in the forest and i love that.

We arrived on Thursday evening and it was easy to find a place for our van not too far from Saut Girard.

The sky was really cloudy and i started to try different compositions on one side of the waterfall. Suddenly, the clouds left some place for the late evening sun and all the area wath painted with this beautiful golden light.
I mounted my Sigma 10-20 on my camera and ran with my tripod to the middle of the little lake. It's probably the best place to show the waterfall and its neighborhood but it's impossible to find an interesting foreground. That's why the photo is cropped to 16x9 aspect ratio.

The contrast was huge between the sky, the bright rocks and the shadows under the trees. After a few tries, i decided to go for an HDR work and the photo posted here was done from 4 exposures processed with Picturenaut and Silkypix.