Posts Tagged: North Fork Mountain
Allegheny Front Foreknobs
Rework from 2015. A long lens view from North Fork Mountain looking west. 80-200 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar CY, Sony a7R2, Lr C, Ps CC.
Kalmia latifolia
Mountain laurel on North Fork Mountain, early June 2016. On the Allegheny Front at Dolly Sods, about 1000 feet higher, the mountain laurel is still in tiny buds. A post will come I’m a few days.
100mm Zeiss Makro-Planar ZF.2, Sony A7r2, Lr 6, Ps CS6.
North Fork Mountain at Dusk
Quercus bicolor. Sure, you say, a swamp white oak on North Fork Mountain. Right. There are a lot of them in the Eastern Panhandle, too, growing on rocky dry soil. Go figure. I think the common name was simply a poor choice.
35-70 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar CY, Sony A7r2, Lr 6, Ps CS6.
North Fork Mountain
Along the spine of North Fork Mountain. This is the east side of the mountain. The west side is a bluff, starting just over the crest here. As nearly as I can tell this location is just east of Champ Rock. This is a really spectacular place, with vistas to the west of the backs of the North Fork foreknobs with its convoluted and illogical topography; the foreknobs of the Allegheny Front beyond that and across the river; and Roaring Plains on top of the Front and towering over the foreknobs. Roaring Plains is probably 1000 feet or more higher than the top of North Fork. It is an exciting place to visit, but difficult to photograph well for a number of reasons.
North Fork Mountain is completely different from the top of the Allegheny Front. Being due east of the Front, North Fork is in the rain shadow of the big mountain. So the vegetation is completely different. No red spruce here. Table mountain pine (Pinus pungens), stunted chestnut oak (Quercus prinus), and occasional white pine (Pinus strobus) populate this ridge. Frequent fires help keep it that way. It is very dry here.
This image was made during my last trip to the Highlands this year, in November of 2015, with fellow photographer Robert Clark.
35-70 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar CY, Sony A7r2, Lr 6, Ps CS6.
North Fork Mountain
Table mountain pines, Pinus pungens, reaching for the light from the crest of North Fork Mountain.
28-90mm Leica Vario-Elmarit R, Nikon 800e, Lr 5, Ps CS6.
View from Roaring Plains
This lone exposed rowan (mountain ash – Sorbus americana), has been hanging on in this windswept and frostbitten location for quite a few years. The mountain in the background is North Fork Mountain. The land I am standing on is probably 1000 feet higher than North Fork.
21mm Zeiss Distagon ZF.2, Nikon 800e, Lr4, PsCS6.
View From the Allegheny Front
This is the view from Bear Rocks looking southeast, with North Fork Mountain in the distance. I am actually looking down on North Fork from here. This was taken in October of 2012.
50mm Makro-Planar ZF.2, Nikon 800e, Lr 4, Ps CS 6.