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Ingram Falls, above Telluride, Colorado, is a frequently overlooked compared to its nearby counterpart Bridal Veil Falls. Instead of being visible more or less at eye level, Ingram Falls drops out of a basin over 2,000 feet above the town, falling somewhere around 280 feet in three steps -- the largest being a prominent 175 foot plunge
Ingram Falls, above Telluride, Colorado, is a frequently overlooked compared to its nearby counterpart Bridal Veil Falls. Instead of being visible more or less at eye level, Ingram Falls drops out of a basin over 2,000 feet above the town, falling somewhere around 280 feet in three steps -- the largest being a prominent 175 foot plunge
Ingram Falls, upper left, and Bridal Veil Falls, lower right, above Telluride, Colorado. Ingram Falls is a frequently overlooked compared to its nearby counterpart. Instead of being visible more or less at eye level, Ingram Falls drops out of a basin over 2,000 feet above the town, falling somewhere around 280 feet in three steps -- the largest being a prominent 175 foot plunge. The two-pronged Bridal Veil Falls is a 365-foot waterfall at the end of the box canyon overlooking Telluride, Colorado. The falls were opened briefly in the 1990s to ice climbers, but the area, is private property so climbing was soon legally prohibited. This does not stop all daredevils from attempting the dangerous climb
Ice-encrusted Bridal Veil Falls, outside Telluride, Colorado. At 1,650 feet, this is the tallest free-standing waterfall in Colorado
End of mountain valley near Telluride, Colorado, showing road up to mine and Bridal Veil Falls
The two-pronged Bridal Veil Falls, is a 365-foot waterfall at the end of the box canyon overlooking Telluride, Colorado. The falls were opened briefly in the 1990s to ice climbers, but the area, is private property so climbing was soon legally prohibited. This does not stop all daredevils from attempting the dangerous climb
The unique TellurideMountain Village gondola above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado
Mountain valley near Telluride showing gold mill and Bridal Veil Falls and road winding around mountain up to the mine. San Miquel County, Colorado
Mountain valley near Telluride, Colorado, showing road up the mountain, Bridal Veil Falls, timberline and the mountain peaks
Ingram Falls (seen in the notch beneath the snow-covered peak), above Telluride, Colorado, is a frequently overlooked compared to its nearby counterpart Bridal Veil Falls. Instead of being visible more or less at eye level, Ingram Falls drops out of a basin over 2,000 feet above the town, falling somewhere around 280 feet in three steps, the largest being a prominent 175 foot plunge
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Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)