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
Icy Fir Branch
I was waiting for the sun to break through a clearing to blacklight the snow and ice on this fir. My fingers started getting really cold. I was just about to give up when the sun came through for just about 5 seconds.
Camera: Nikon D850 Lens: Nikkor 28-300mm set at 300 ISO 200 1/320 sec f/11
Snowy Bunker
Walking around Fort Worden in Port Townsend in the snow was a treat. Snow is pretty much a rarity in Port Townsend … This is one of the abandoned bunkers that was used to guard the entrance to Admiralty Inlet (Puget Sound).
Camera: Nikon D850 Lens: Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 ISO 100 1/200 sec f/6.3
Bailey Range Ridge Detail
This is a detail of the central Bailey Range (Olympic National Park) I took from Hurricane Ridge while snowshoeing. This is a section just south of Mt Carrie.
Camera: Nikon D850 Lens: Nikkor 28-300mm set at 300mm ISO 200 1/1000 sec f/11
The Bailey Range from Hurricane Ridge
I was up at Hurricane Ridge (Olympic National Park) with my snowshoes and camera on President’s Day Monday. It never cleared off completely, but I was able to get a view across the valley of the Elwha to the central part of the Bailey Range.
Camera: Nikon D850 Lens: Nikkor 28-300mm set at 90mm ISO 200 1/640 sec f/11