La Push, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA. 2nd November 2018.
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Well, I woke up this morning and it was a perfect day.
(Sounds like a Blues song).
Wild weather on the coast not far from my room. Couldn’t ask for more. From here I headed off to Hoh Rainforest.
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The Hoh River on the way to the Hoh Rainforest.
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Rainforest trees with epiphytic ferns.
I visited the edge of the Hoh Rainforest two posts ago and now I went for a walk in it, either on the Hall of Mosses Trail or the Spruce Nature Trail.
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Lichens on tree branches.
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The lichen-encrusted tree branches are an unending source of wonder. In most photographic situations one looks for elegant and compelling simplicity. Here, for the most part, the challenge is to fold a scene of unravelling complexity into a coherent composition.
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In most of the images, I did the wandering and I’ll just leave you to do the wondering.
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I was fortunate in these images that it was raining or overcast. The last thing you want photographing in a forest is a bright sunny day. Bright highlights and dark shadows can make wide shots impossible and force you to concentrate on details solely in either the shade or the sunlight.
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An understory of ferns below the trees.
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This isn’t a stand-alone copse, just a small section of the rainforest.
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You probably can’t see it in this relatively small web image, but there’s incredible detail in the trees and foliage.
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An intricate maze.
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Floor of the forest.
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Maybe there’s an encrusted giraffe on the right there, frozen in time.
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Leaves and water.
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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 in abundance.
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Rainforest with hints of autumn (fall, if you must).
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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.
It is good there is a track. Wandering too far from one without a map and a compass or a GPS might prove challenging.
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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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(The walk in the Hoh Rainforest continues in the next post).
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Note: This Blog has 1,200 travel posts and 70 live music posts, with 22,500 images. I also recently updated a Blog page that now has links to 20,000 live music images from 1,900 live performances since 2006. (Stored outside the Blog, in JAlbum).
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