Alva B. Richmond: So. California Views: A Photographic Portfolio, 1916
Big Santa Anita Canyon: Hermit Falls, 1916
Alva B. Richmond: So. California Views: A Photographic Portfolio, 1916
Hermit Falls: Big Santa Anita Canyon, Nov., 1916
To secure this picture I had to descend the face of the cliff you see, carrying my camera and tripod and then climb back again. My descent was about 100 ft. down. Falls are 40 feet higher.
"Down between the dark cleft in the rocks above us comes tumbling in beautiful cascades a mountain stream. The water is cold and pure, fed from deep recesses above by springs and running brooks which come rushing down the dark canyons through the open halls between huge trunks of trees whose branches form a solid shade above and where pine needles carpet the earth beneath.
"With irresistible force it foams along among the huge boulders of white granite, settling with a roar in a basin at our feet, forming a pool green in its clearness where the foam rests for a moment before cascading down among the rocks below, where it is shattered into the whiteness of snow." -A.B. Richmond