When you hear country music stars talk about 'cooling off in the creek' or 'skinny dipping in moonlight' or any other kind of swimming hole, this is what they are talking about. Being from Montana, I can't say I have a lot of experience swimming in rivers. Mountain streams are bitter cold, and to me, even the lakes aren't swimmable till 2pm in the summer. And the larger rivers can be hazardous to your health(currents that can KILL!)
But, when it's 95° out and humid as can be, a cool creek down in a hollar is quite refreshing.
Even now in October, the water was somewhat pleasant, not too cold to stand in for a long period of time. Towards the end of my little outing I attempted to cross the creek in an area about waiste deep, but the farther out into the creek I went, the more and more the current was about to push me over, and since I was carrying my 'nice' camera, back to the shore I went:)
The below image was shot using two images. One was focused on the foreground leaves, and the second on the background. I could have gottent most of the scene in focus using f22, but the diffraction of that aperture can really bring down the sharpness of an image. Hence, I shot the two images using f8 or f11 or something like that:)
