The early morning in the Olympic Rainforest can provide views of mist and trees and ridges … my favorites. The best part is that in the Olympics (if you’re lucky), these morning mists can burn off by mid-morning and you can have a clear sunny day. This is the North Fork Quinault river … the river is over by the other bank at this point. It did turn out to be a sunny day, after about 10:30 AM or so.
More of my favorite images with mist, trees and ridges. These are in the Quinault Rain Forest of the Olympic National Park.
These two images are taken from the same location as my last post … different days, different years, different cameras. These are taken with my first digital camera (an Olympus E10). The images are much softer … a lot less detail. I like the softness that gives the images, even though it does create limits to your editing (such as the strange edges on the clouds on the image above).
Again, these are taken from the bridge over the Quinault River just outside the Olympic National Park boundary.
Fog and mist blowing through the trees and up valleys makes a dramatic scene. Always a favorite of mine.
This is another example of mist blowing over the Olympic Mountain ridges. This one didn’t have the sun backlighting the clouds and has a lot darker tones. This is up the North Fork Skokomish.