Posts Tagged: Picea rubens
Two Dead Red Spruce and a Stressed Hemlock Walk Into a Bar . . .
On Canaan Mountain. 100-400mm Sony GM, Sony a7R3, Lr 6, Ps CS6.
Red Spruce on Dolly Sods
Piece rubens, our native spruce. This was a tough one and I’m not at all sure I have it yet. Maybe I’ll revisit it in a while if I have an idea about how to better present what it stirs in me.
35-70mm Zeiss Vario-Sonnar CY, Sony A7r2, Lr 6, Ps CS6.
Red Spruce and Hemlock in the West Fork Greenbriar River Valley
Over the weekend of the 4th I visited this beautiful valley for the first time. It lies at the eastern foot of the Allegheny Front just north of Durbin. What a gorgeous place! BIG spruce, hemlock, yellow birch, and hawthorns in the meadows! A lovely little river. Trout rising without caution. Walls of rhododendron in bloom everywhere. There is an old railroad rail to trail that runs the entire length of the valley of perhaps 25 miles. From here I went to the Laurel Fork Wilderness, but there was no comparison. Perhaps in 100-200 years the Laurel Fork Valley will be as beautiful. This is the first of several images I will post from this valley.
Massive red spruce, Picea rubens, and behind it on the right (different bark texture) is an even more massive hemlock, Tsuga canadensis.
Sigma DP3 Merrill, Sigma Photo Pro, Lr 5, Ps CS6.
Wilderness at 50: Photographic Reflections
This is one of four images I am showing soon at the Crary Art Gallery in Warren Pennsylvania. The exhibit is being held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act. There are approximately ten photographers from around the country exhibiting here for this anniversary show, all of whom photograph in wilderness areas. I am truly flattered to be invited to exhibit with the likes of Craig Blacklock, Clyde Butcher, David Muench, and others of similar stature.
Two Hemlocks and a Red Spruce Walk Into A Bar…
OK, so my sense of humor is obtuse and completely desiccated. This is, in fact, two hemlocks (Tsuga canadensis) and a red spruce (Picea rubens) on the Nature Conservancy property in Canaan Valley.
75mm SMC Pentax-A 645, Nikon 800e, Lr5, Ps CS6. Wanna know about my tripod? No? Good.
Roaring Plains
A yellow birch, Betula alleghaniensis, surrounded by young red spruce, Picea rubens.
28-90mm Leica Vario-Elmarit ASPH, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
Canaan Mountain
A red pine, Pinus resinosa, and companion red spruce, Picea rubens. The one on the far left and the tree on the far right in the distance is a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis. That these spruce are clustered around the red pine is no accident. This is a harsh and nutrient poor environment. The red pine offers some meager shelter but probably more significant is the soil enrichment provided by its fallen decaying needles. You can see that the red pine is itself struggling and might not survive many more years.
This is the headwaters bog for Red Run which tumbles its way down the mountain to the Dry Fork, downstream from Hendricks.
28-90mm Leica Vario-Elmarit, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
Weather Front from Roaring Plains
The view looking south-east from the Allegheny Front in the Roaring Plains Wilderness. The sky kind of looks like a botched retouching job, but it isn’t. This is the weather front that recently gave us four or five days of heavy rain sliding up along the east coast.
80-200mm Zeiss Vario-Sonnar CY, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
The Centurion Revisited
My friend Sergey Zlotnikov, a master photogravure printer, suggested upon seeing the color version of the Centurion that it would make “a good plate.” His perception of how well it might work as monochrome is right on! Still not sure how this would translate in photogravure but it might be time to find out. This image has an unusual mix of hard and soft tonal transitions, so would be telling for testing alternative printmaking processes. I know from past experience that it would work very well in platinum, and of course it will make a dandy inkjet print.
21mm Zeiss Distagon ZF.2, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.