Posts Tagged: Rhododendron
Rhododendron Blossom
This is a rework of one from earlier this year:
65mm Voigtlander APO Lanthar, Sony a7R4, Lr C9, Ps CC21.
Dawn on Canaan Mountain Bog
A glorious Saturday morning on Canaan Mountain. The bugs had me for breakfast. From Left to right in the foreground: Rhododendron maximum, Osmunda cinnamomea, and Ilex mucronata formerly nemopanthus.
28mm-90mm Leica Vario-Elmarit ASPH, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
More Red Run Bog
I thought it would snow any minute. This needs to be a big PRINT. The amount of detail in there is scary.
80-200mm Vario-Sonnar CY, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
Red Run Bog—Take II
Balsam Fir, Abies balsamea, center and right. Native but an unusual sight these days.
Compare this image to the previous post. The sun swept through. What can I say… I’m easily amused. Always have been.
80-200mm Vario-Sonnar CY, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
Red Run (not Redrum) Bog—Take I
Balsam Fir, Abies balsamea, center and right. Native but an unusual sight these days.
Compare this image to the next one. The sun swept through. This one is largely backlit, the next has full sun with the background in shade.
80-200mm Vario-Sonnar CY, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
Back in Big Run Bog
From two trips ago. I’ve been thinking about some conversations I had with Alec Johnson on the nature of the photo work we do. It occurs to me that, like in painting, it is useful to imitate those who inspired you. But in the end you have to find your own voice, which is never the same as that of your heroes. The AA mantra of having the courage to change what you can and the wisdom to recognize and accept what you can’t applies in spades here. How we see is formed and informed by many things, from the physical nature of our optic systems to the experiences of our lives. But it is important to recognize what it is in some way and accept it. I think it is analogous to maturity. I think it is when creativity really begins.
21mm Distagon ZF.2, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
Red Run Bog
Cold and blustery on Canaan Mountain. Don’t let that little bit of sunshine fool you. I was out there from 10pm Monday (after an excellent dinner at the Blackwater Brew Pub in Davis) till noon this past Tuesday. I was fine in my sleeping bag, but from dawn I was out in two pair of gloves, three layers of goose down, a shell, and waders and I was still cold! But it was worth it. More images to come.
80-200mm Vario-Sonnar CY, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
Big Run Falls
From this past weekend trip with photo buddy Bob Clark. All the rivers and creeks were seasonally low even though we were soaked by storms passing through that day.
This is perhaps a four or five foot drop and marks the beginning of the Glissade. The First Falls, maybe a fifteen foot drop, is partly visible in the upper right. The Glissade gradually ends as it becomes the Second Falls, a hefty twenty foot drop. And who knows what all is downriver from there. But I do know that the climb back up from downriver will be a bear. Ask Bob about his bushwhacking adventure trying to get out from below Second Falls. He did battle with the Rhodo-Ents.
I photographed in the headwaters bog (I have been calling it Olsen Bog) enjoying its unique flora several years ago, but I didn’t explore downstream. Fran and I found the falls a few weeks ago after revisiting the bog. We could hear them roaring below us but didn’t feel like bushwhacking down to explore that day.
I look forward to visiting this little gem in the spring when the groundwater and headwater Olsen Bog are fully charged.
I have a number of images to work up and post from this short trip of Big Run, Shays Run, and Canaan Bog, so if you like this one stay tuned!
From a single exposure: 28-90 Vario-Elmarit, Zeiss circular polarizer, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.
Dolly Sods
From my most recent trip with friend and fellow photographer Bob Clark. This is near Bear Rocks. This image was reworked for a second time and updated here on November 20.
21mm Zeiss Distagon ZE, Canon 5D Mk II, Aperture 3.2, Ps CS5.