
A most happy holiday season to all.
These trees are my current favorite image. A nice reminder that nature knows how to decorate better than humans.
- Camera: Nikon D850
- Lens: Nikkor 80-400mm set at 330mm
- ISO 200 1/400 sec f/8
This was from the same day as the previous post (Sunny Winter Scene) and about an hour later. The clouds came up the mountain and everything was totally socked in. Not much to shoot except the outlines of trees. So, I shot outlines of trees. This is not a black and white image, by the way. There just isn’t any color making it through the fog.
We were eating lunch during a hike at Hurricane Hill in Olympic National Park. We immediately attracted a number of Gray Jays … aka camp robbers.
They are not shy at all, so I was able to get several nice photos of this little guy. I was especially happy with the details on the chest feathers.
The mountain forests have scattered among them an assortment of silver snags … trees have that died and remained standing. The wood bleaches out and the wood takes on a beautiful silver color that is difficult to show on a web post. This one is in the Hurricane Ridge area of Olympic National Park.