John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. He invites us to participate in this cellphone photo prompt by creating our own CellPic Sunday post and linking it back to his.

This week, John focused on the beautiful Bear Creek Falls in Ouray, Colorado, so I thought I’d focus on a few waterfalls local to me. But unlike Bear Creek Falls, all three of the waterfalls I’m featuring are man-made.

These first two photos were taken in 2015 with my iPhone 6 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

The above photo is of Rainbow Falls. It was named for the colored lights that originally framed the falls at their dedication in 1930. Rainbow Falls was the second of two artificial waterfall systems created in Golden Gate Park. Water is pumped from nearby Lloyd Lake, and circulated in the trench stream along JFK Drive, the main drag along the north side of the park.

The photo above is of the first of the artificial waterfalls created at Golden Gate Park, Huntington Falls. Named for one of the railroad barons, Collins Huntington, the falls is located right in the center of the park on Strawberry Hills Island. The water cascades down from a small reservoir near the top of Strawberry Hill into Stow Lake, which surrounds the island. Even though it was the first of the two waterfalls planned for the park, its construction was stalled and it was not until 1984 that the project was finally completed.

Finally, the photo above shows my favorite local waterfall, the one in our backyard. It was constructed in the fall of 2020 and is the smallest of the three waterfalls I’m featuring today, but it is the perfect size for our backyard. This photo was taken in March of this year using my iPhone 15 Pro Max.

As usual, all photos have been resized (shrunk) to make them load more quickly and take up less space in my WordPress media folder.