Walking through fields of lupine up in the high country is one of my favorite things. It’s especially nice when it’s not wet and overgrowing the trail. Then your boots get wet … and usually your socks. It can be uncomfortable the rest of the day. Fortunately, this was dry and away from the trail. Another close up “panorama”.
Most of the white flowers here are American Bistort with one or two strays mixed in.
This was taken on the High Divide trail in Olympic National Park.
This is the photo that I chose for the cover of my hiking memiors: 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. I haven’t been able to get a book seller to carry the hard copy yet, but it is available as an eBook on the Amazon Kindle website.
I’ve got it priced low. By the way, if/when I get it available as a hard copy, I’ll let you all know. The 5.5″ x 8.5″ size is priced at $24.99 US and the interior photos are black and white. The Kindle version is priced at $2.99 US and the images are all in color (except for early images that I took on B&W film.) It is available globally.
Here’s the link (or search for “60 Years of Hiking”):
I like seeing subalpine fir, partly because it means (typically around here, anyway) that I’m in the mountains. But this image also shows that a ‘panorama’ doesn’t have to be a distant scene. Closeup panoramas are one of my favorites.
I have been working for the last several months at putting together my hiking memiors. The title is “60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics”, and yes, that is how long I’ve been doing hikes and backpacks into the park. Since I always had a camera with me on those trips, I have spent hours going through all the images and selecting ones to include. One of the surprises was when I realized that there were several that I had taken with the idea that I might “paste them together” to create panoramas. That was difficult to do back in the film days … digital processing eventually made it as easy as pushing a button. These images are ones that I had never taken the time to paste together … so were new surprises for me. The one above is of Heart Lake on the approach to the High Divide. Below is the view of the Upper Hoh River valley from the middle of the High Divide, looking southeast. Mt Olympus is just to the right of the image … I had created the panorama of that one earlier, but missed this combination. (These were taken with an early digital camera … but before there was easy to use software to stitch them together.)
And when (if) the book is available as an eBook for easy download, I will provide the link.
These images of water all have very different moods to them. The one above is taken from Fort Worden in Port Townsend, the middle one is the Port Townsend waterfront and the bottom one is small tributary of the Dosewallips River (Phantom Creek), near the small town of Brinnon. They were all taken on Portra 400 using a Nikon F6.
