Fog and mist blowing through the trees and up valleys makes a dramatic scene. Always a favorite of mine.
More Misty Valleys
Marine Science Center in the Mist
This is the Marine Science Center at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. The exposure range was extreme enough that it burned out the area in the upper right, but it seemed not to distract from the image too much. The point of land in the middle distance (it’s hard to see the far distance) is Point Hudson.
Morning Mist
This is Hart Lake in the Upper Duckabush area of the Olympic National Park. There is more discussion of the location in a previous post (https://ajjphotoblog.com/?p=13156). This was taken from our campsite shortly after sunrise. The mist burned off shortly afterwards.
Misty Ridge – Low Key
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.
Misty Ridge High Key
There are a lot of clouds in the Olympic Mountains … it takes all those clouds to give you the rain forest valleys. And even if the valley is on the downwind side of the peninsula, you still have the clouds. You just end up with less rain coming down from them. Having spent so much time in the Olympics, I guess it’s not surprising that I’m attracted to cloudy ridgelines. This one was taken up the valley of the Dosewallips. The sun had just disappeared into the bright area in the upper left and it started to sprinkle shortly later. Never very hard, but enough to get things (and people) damp.
The dead trees are a result of a forest fire several years before … one that made a mess of the Lake Constance trail … already one of the more difficult hikes in the Olympics, now even more difficult due to so many trees having fallen across the trail. It is still used quite a bit, though, as it is one of the popular approaches to climb Mt Constance (the highest Olympic peak visible on the Seattle skyline).