Hoh Rainforest, Washington State, USA. 1st and 2nd November 2018. (Trip summary and links to posts).
Equivalent colour posts with more images and more information are Hoh Rainforest Part 1. and Hoh Rainforest Part 2.
Apart from La Push images at the start and end, all are from Hoh Rainforest. I drove from where I was staying in La Push, which is about 75 kilometres (47 miles) or an hour and a quarter.
These images are duotones which means different colours are assigned to highlights and shadows. I processed an initial image to have orange highlights and green shadows. I copied those settings to the others and then adjusted each one, often considerably, so they are all different. An image with more shadows and the same toning can also look quite different to an image with more highlights.
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Wild weather on the coast not far from my room in La Push.
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The Hoh River on the way to the Hoh Rainforest.
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Rainforest trees with epiphytic ferns.
Heading off for a walk in either on the Hall of Mosses Trail or the Spruce Nature Trail.
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The lichen-encrusted tree branches are an unending source of wonder. .
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An intricate maze of ferns and branches.
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This isn’t a stand-alone copse, just a small section of the rainforest.
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Floor of the forest.
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A timeless window.
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Hanging foliage and a river or stream in the background.
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Lichen-dripped branches in the rainforest.
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Is it a mushstool or a toadroom?
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In the heart of the rainforest.
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Great depth of foliage.
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Almost like a waterfall of foliage.
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Small epiphytic ferns growing out of a protrusion on a tree, like a gargoyle on the walls of Nature’s cathedrals.
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Looking through to a natural lichen sculpture of some complexity.
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A view connected by diagonal branches.
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Ferns, trees and lichen.
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A necklace of Epiphytic ferns and lichen (hanging on a tree branch).
(This is also visible in the centre of the previous image).
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Perhaps like a waterfall of lichen-covered branches.
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A lattice-work of branches and dead autumn leaves. Potentially a nightmare jigsaw puzzle.
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An elegant tree, a gentle interplay of light and shade.
(The last image from the rainforest).
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And now we are back in La Push.
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