Posts Tagged: Allegheny National Forest
Mostly Hemlocks – Heart’s Content
Tsuga canadensis. 28-90mm Leica Vario Elmarit R, Sony a7R4, Lr C9, Ps CC21.
Northern Red Oaks – Heart’s Content
Quercus rubra. Not as massive as the hemlocks and white pines here, but still pretty darn big.
65mm Voigtlander APO Lanthar, Sony a7R4, Lr C9, Ps CC21.
White Pine – Heart’s Content
A massive white pine, Pinus strobus, at Heart’s Content in the Allegheny National Forest and adjacent to Hickory Creek Wilderness. Unfortunately these old virgin pines don’t seem to be reproducing. Or their young are not surviving. The Hemlocks, Tsuga canadensis, also massive and virgin, seem to be reproducing with a vengeance. This small ~50 acre area has survived the bucksaws of the turn to the 20th century due to a surveyor’s error. It’s beauty is a suggestion of the majesty that once blanketed Eastern North America.
28-90mm Leica Vario-Elmarit R, Sony a7R4, Lr C9, Ps CC21.
Paper Birch – Allegheny National Forest
24-105mm Sony G, Sony a7R4, Lr C9, Ps CC21.
Heart’s Content
Another image from my visit to the Allegheny National Forest.
Sigma DP3 Merrill, Sigma Photo Pro, Ps CS6.
Heart’s Content
A couple of massive hemlocks in one of the few areas in the East that were spared the lumbermens’ axe. It is hard to convey in a single image just how massive these things are. The trunks at the ground are impressive enough (the ferns are probably knee high on me) but when you look up and they continue straight up into the clouds you know you are in the presence of life that was probably in existence when Columbus first sailed into the Caribbean. Much of the East was like this at one time. This is the appropriately named Heart’s Content area in the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania. The area has a lot of virgin hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), but it also has white pine (Pinus strobus), yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis), and sugar maple (Acer saccharum) – all virgin growth and all massive. I have seen only one other hemlock in my life that rivals these in size, and it unfortunately is now gone.
I will be posting more images from Heart’s Content over time.
Sigma DP3 Merrill, Sigma Photo Pro 5, Ps CS6.
Kinzua Dam Spillway – Side View
Just back from my recent trip to Western Pennsylvania and the Wilderness 50th celebration at the Crary Gallery in Warren. I simply can’t say enough about the kindness, warmth, and generosity of the folks associated with the gallery and the people of Warren in general. It was a very special visit.
This is a side view of the spillway of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River, a short distance upriver from Warren. I have some pretty mixed feelings about dams in general, this one included, but they do present some interesting visual material. I have another image of this spillway that I will be posting next.
Now a little shameless self promotion: My four images will continue to be exhibited until the end of September along with many other fine images from the likes of Craig Blacklock, Clyde Butcher, Kevin Ebi, Scot Miller, David Muench, and a few other equally fine photographers. It has truly been an honor!
45mm Zeiss Planar CG, Sony a6000, Lr 5.6, Ps CS6. This vintage rangefinder lens and this camera are an outstanding combination!