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While setting up camp late in the afternoon I heard a thump, thump so I went to investigate and found this lovely Pileated chipping away at a decayed log. I ran for my Canon 300 f2.8, rested it on the end of the log and fired away.
For those of you that are interested in the equipment, I had all Canon until last fall then jumped ship to Nikon for the D500 and 200-500mm very happy with that combination. As I had accumulated a few Canon lenses for the 7DMII I decided to keep that system so glad I did as the 300mm sure comes in handy for a low light shot like this. I use the Canon 100-400mm in my kayak and then a Canon wide angle 24-70mm for landscape or close-ups.
Settings:
f/3.2
1/125sec
ISO 500
300mm
The Quinault Rain Forest is a temperate rain forest, which is part of the Olympic National Park and the Olympic National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington in Grays Harbor County and Jefferson County. The rain forest is located in the valley formed by the Quinault River and Lake Quinault. The valley is called the "Valley of the Rain Forest Giants" because of the number of record size tree species located there. The largest specimens of Western Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce, Western Hemlock, Alaskan Cedar and Mountain Hemlock are found in the forest as well as five of the ten largest Douglas-firs. The forest receives an average of 12 feet of rain per year. It is believed to be the area with the greatest number of record size giant tree species in the smallest area in the world. It does have the largest trees in the world outside of the state of California and New Zealand.
On our way to Alishan, Taiwan, I came down with some stomach flu that left me curled up in the fetal position for a day, huddling under 2 blankets, wearing all the clothes I'd brought with us. It was pretty cold, and the hotel was unheated. But the second day, I felt better, and we walked through the misty forest, and caught some breathtaking scenes of wooded splendour. Check out my blog post for a few more shots from this day.
This is part of the hiking trail along Lake Waccamaw. It travels along the large Carolina Bay along the sand ridge and the Longleaf Pine forest.
The weird center exits the Village of Oak Park forced on the traffic engineers when they were building the Eisenhower Expressway in the 1950s also forced the engineers to shift the location of the tracks for the CTA Blue Line they were building simultaneously. The Blue Line was designed to run down the center of the highway, but that's where the Village of Oak Park wanted the exits. This forced the Blue Line tracks to shift to the outside, so that they run along the highway's south side for a few miles.
Here, you can see the view down onto the tracks from the Circle Avenue overpass one block inside the Village of Forest Park. The Blue Line is passing under tracks that I think belong to Union Pacific, then will shift right to pass over the Eisenhower to get to the end of the line at the Forest Park Station, which is on the north side of the highway. This makes me wonder why they didn't shift the tracks north of the highway to begin with, as that would have saved them a bridge.
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Green forest below Win Hill reflected in the still water of Ladybower reservoir.
All these shots involved a period of waiting for the water to clear after Poppy insisted on having a dip every few minutes.
For thousands of years, this old-growth Forest has changed, adapted and survived. When you visit the Forest, you will walk along Native American hunting trails, see marks left by glaciers, and pass under trees dating back to the American Revolution. The unique beauty and ecological importance of the forest are one of the reasons why the founders selected this site for The New York Botanical Garden in 1895. Today this is the largest uncut expanse of New York’s original wooded landscape.
nybg.org
A good patch of wildflwers along the MKT Trail. The white ones are called Claytonia Viginica or Spring Beauty and there were also some Wake Robin Trillium that are native to Missouri.
Trails into the forest at Bushkill Falls are full of photo opportunities. There's a network there of hiking trails and bridges allowing good views of the falls and the surrounding forest.