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Category:Scenic

Subcategory:Rivers

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Keywords:Buffalo, Buffalo Niagara, Eternal Flame, NY, New York, Orchard Park, Shale Creek, Shale Creek Preserve, frozen creek, gorge, ice, nature, pattern, season, snow, spot, wet spots, winter

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Dimensions4000 x 2666

Original file size3.2 MB

Image typeJPEG

Color spacesRGB

Date taken29-Dec-12 15:41

Date modified30-Dec-12 09:58

Shooting Conditions

Camera makeNIKON CORPORATION

Camera modelNIKON D600

Focal length58 mm

Focal length (35mm)58 mm

Max lens aperturef/4.4

Exposure1/125 at f/9

FlashNot fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias+1 1/3 EV

Exposure modeAuto

Exposure prog.Aperture priority

ISO speedISO 500

Metering modePattern

Digital zoom1x

Wet Spots on a Frozen Shale Creek, Eternal Flame Gorge in Shale Creek Preserve, Chestnut Ridge, Orchard Park, New York (NY).

Wet Spots on a Frozen Creek

Shale Creek in Shale Creek Preserve, Chestnut Ridge Park, Orchard Park, New York (NY), just a few minutes from the splendid Eternal Flame Falls.

Shale Creek Preserve is enclosed between Chestnut Ridge Road (Rte 277) and Seufert Road in Orchard Park, NY. It is most known for hosting the Eternal Flame Falls, where escaping natural gas keeps a flame burning in the middle of a waterfall. The area is at the southernmost tip of Chestnut Ridge Park. It owes it's name to a thick layer of shale, up to 95 feet, that the creek cut through.

Chestnut Ridge Park is named after the many chestnut trees that used to cover the hills. The park offers plenty of hiking opportunities, there is a disc golf course in the smaller eastern part (starting right by the casino), and in winter cross-country skiing and snowshoeing is popular. The hill by the casino offers cladding and the toboggan chutes have been fixed and are operational again too.