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
Decorated Trees
Foggy Winter Scene
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.
- Camera: Nikon D850
- Lens: Nikkor 80-400mm set at 400mm
- ISO 200 1/32o sec f/7.1
Sunny Winter Scene
I was walking around up at Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park recently. Not much snow, so easy walking. A couple of folks were cross-country skiing, mostly because it was the first time they could.
- Camera: Nikon D850
- Lens: Nikkor 80-400mm set at 400
- ISO 200 1/640 sec f/14
Snow, Frost and Wildflower
There was a thick coating of hoar frost on top of the inch or two of snow. This is at Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park.
- Camera: Nikon D850
- Lens: Nikkor 80-400mm set at 270mm
- ISO 200 1/1000 sec f/16
Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center in Winter
The Olympic National Park includes a road that runs up to Hurricane Ridge at an elevation of over 5000 feet. During the winter it is the only ski area on the Olympic Peninsula… it’s small but it attracts a lot of folks, even though there is only a rope tow and no actual lift. On days when there’s a view, it is spectacular. This view looks across the Elwha Valley to the central Bailey Range.
I had been shooting with my zoom lens out to 400mm … and had the ISO and shutter speed set for that lens. When I changed the lens back to the wide angle zoom, I forgot to readjust the settings until after I had shot this.
Camera: Nikon D850 Lens: 28-85 mm set at 52mm ISO 400 1/1000 sec f/16