Proxy Falls are located on a .8 mile trail accessible from the Old McKenzie Highway (Hwy 242) in Oregon. Both Upper and Lower Falls are beautiful, the Upper falls especially so because of many cascades.
I packed up the dogs, my camera, and my tripod and headed out to continue my attempts to get a good waterfall picture. The secret, I am told, is to get there before the sun does. I doubted that would happen, but I decided to try anyway. Much to my surprise, when I got to the overlook of the Lower Falls, the sun had not broken into the valley where the falls flow. Of course, in the ten minutes it took me to get set up, the sun broke over the trees, creating glare and the high contrast I was hoping to avoid.
As I was taking shots, a family hiked past. A girl asked me "Are you a photographer?"
"No," I said. "I'm just a guy with a camera."
With only minor difficulty, I hiked down to the bottom of the falls to take more pictures. There I ran into a real photographer who was doing a story for an outdoors magazine. I assume his pictures turned out better than mine.
After the Lower Falls, I went to the upper falls. I got a few good shots there (see picture), but had to back away when another group with a dog showed up and decided to stay for a beer and a smoke. Shasta, didn't much care for their dog and proved too much a distraction to allow for photography.
I took the dogs back to the car, hiked back to the upper falls, got a few pictures (you know, about 100), then headed back home via the Dee Wright Volcanic Observatory and Sisters.
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