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Prince Albert National Park in central Saskatchewan, Canada and is located 200 kilometres north of Saskatoon. Though declared a national park March 24, 1927, it had its official opening ceremonies on August 10, 1928 performed by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The park is open all year but the most visited period is from May to September.
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📍 Bosahan Woods, Constantine
Here's a bit of a moody edit of scene shot at Bosahan Woods, Constantine. I chose to do this heavy edit as the light wasn't amazing (a little harsh/bright). Compositionally, I was drawn to the fern anchoring the foreground with the fallen branch leading the eye into the frame.
What made this shot special to me though, was that I was sharing a small patch of woodland with a roe deer buck for a good 45 minutes! Whenever I've seen wild deer before, they've bolted as soon as they've clocked me. But this deer chap was inquisitive and watched me go about my business of landscape photography from about 20 metres away! Unfortunately, I only had my 24-105 lens with me, so I couldn't get a decent picture of him.
Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 24mm | ƒ/11 | 1/6 sec | ISO 400 | Tripod | Polarising filter | Lightroom & Photoshop | Taken at Constantine on 21-05-2022
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The recent storms washed away this lovely chunk of deadfall, much to my regret, and the birds’ too. Avila Beach, CA, USA
Four female common mergansers (Mergus merganser) make a sloppy row on a deadfall log on a salmon river. They eat fish and other aquatic prey such as custaceans and mollusks. Cariboo-Chilcotin, BC.
06/02/2024 www.allenfotowild.com
Against a rocky backdrop, a girl expertly makes her way across a log spanning a depression in the Oboke Gorge, Shikoku Island, Japan. Some fall vegetation, including the pretty tassels of maiden silver grass (Miscanthus sinensis) are included in the shot.
Waterfall on the Middle Fork of Cane Creek
Daniel Boone National Forest
This neat little waterfall is now nearly hidden from deadfall.
Grizzly sow and cub.
There were a number of mother grizzly bears with their cubs at Chilko Lake during the fall salmon season, but the second year cubs were starting to get a little more independent and were usually a bit too far from their moms to fit in the same photo frame. Getting a shot of them together was a bit challenging, but a little patience resulted in this shot of a mom/cub pair interacting at the lake shore. Chilko Lake, BC.
12/09/2021 www.allenfotowild.com
When nature reclaims a waterfall...It happens...This moderate sized waterfall is named Crane Falls...It's the last waterfall on Crane Creek at the southeastern end of the Winding Stairs Trail. There are campsites nearby and the creek flows under Tamassee Creek Rd at a picturesque setting into Lake Cherokee. From the road, a short hike on a trail up the creek on river-right brings you to a creek crossing where the trail continues across...The trail continues to the waterfall in about the same condition as you see here...Years ago, this waterfall was beautiful, however the trail and the falls have been forgotten by the forestry department. The 3.5 mile Winding Stairs Trail is still a popular hiking trail and as beautiful as you'll find anywhere, and so are the campsites. Above this waterfall, Crane Creek rises over a thousand feet in elevation through six additional cascading waterways: 2) The Cascades, 3) Secret Falls, 4) Deep Secret Falls (aka Crane Creek Falls); 5) Deep Dark Secret Falls (aka Yellow Jacket Falls), 6) Prospector Falls, 7) Deadfall Falls. Secret Falls drops some 80 plus feet and is situated in the narrow confines of the gorge in a barely visible location. The best time of year to see the full expanse of it is during Winter. The next three waterfalls, 4, 5, & 6 listed above are spectacular....beyond comprehension, ~but to get to these involves a dangerous steep, bushwhack down about 200 plus feet on the sloping ridgelines back and forth across the creek in the gorge. There are no trails. My friend Harmon and I are planning to hike to these early next Spring when the water is high. But back to Crane Falls...I love this creek, the gorge and the Winding Stairs Trail. I've driven the gravel forest road Tamassee Creek Road three times this year. I've hiked the Winding Stairs Trail 3 times and been to Secret Falls and another waterfall Miuka Falls on the other side of the trail. I'm hoping the DNR will clean up this waterfall and the trail leading to it. If not, I may show up with a few of my buddies with our chainsaws, grappling hooks and chains and take a couple of days to clean this up.
Holga 120N with Holgamods cable release adapter and ND4 filter on Ilford Ortho Plus film @ f/11, 20 seconds. Semi-Stand developed in Rodinal 1:100 and scanned on an Epson V600.
I've visited these falls many times in the past and never managed to get a shot that I liked. The flow has rarely been more than a trickle, and the debris and deadfall were plentiful.
Given our current social distancing situation and the fact that locally we had just received several inches of rain, I decided to throw my RB67 and my Holga in my bag and head for George Rogers Clark Park in Springfield, Ohio to give it another try. I arrived there just after sunrise and wasn't disappointed this time. The flow was the best I've ever seen and the torrent of rain had washed away most of the debris and deadfall.
During the 1½hrs on the trail I saw ten cycles — on acoustic, mountain bikes and in varying groups — pass me along the trail.
Sunday morning I hiked 4km roundtrip along a Thetis Lake Park Trail.
During the 1½hrs on the trail I saw ten cycles — on acoustic, mountain bikes and in varying groups — pass me along the trail.
Yesterday I rode my ebike here but took the wrong trail
Today I got it right and hiked the Highland Road Trail 2km through to Munn Rd near Rolla Pl.
This is the northern-most Thetis Lake Munn Rd connector — of which there are a few.
I don't know if I can cycle it due to all the steep hills but I'm willing to find out.
Maybe I can break some bones next time.
I love it when I see grizzly mothers teaching their cubs to catch and eat salmon. When the cubs are smaller they stay on shore and watch while their mothers fish. This mother has brought a salmon to her cub and they are sharing it on a deadfall log. In the accompanying photo the mom passes behind the cub, leaving it to eat the whole salmon. Cariboo Chilcotin, BC.
29/02/2024 www.allenfotowild.com
A small cascade waterfall on Robertson Creek in the Algoma Highlands- -about 30 km north of Sault Ste. Marie.
When I first started making this series of images I really did think of them from the outset as a series of portraits. I did this because I wanted to make something different than pictures of objects... or parts of a landscape, even if these trees are those things too. So I considered them portraits, doing a bit of personification in the process. It is a creative venture but one that allows me to think of these trees in a different fashion. They are full of life after all. In that sense, you can also think of them as cities, or mass congregations of life. In the last two or three decades we have only begun to understand the teeming life found in such stumps and deadfall. They are homes to invertebrates and vertebrates, bugs and animals, flora and fauna. I have no way of measuring such a statistic but this old fellow right here may harbor thousands or tens of thousands of living creatures. We tend to see it as one thing: a stump, or a dead tree. But it is neither one thing nor dead.
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I love it when I see grizzly mothers teaching their cubs to catch and eat salmon. When the cubs are smaller they stay on shore and watch while their mothers fish. This mother has brought a salmon to her cub and they are sharing it on a deadfall log. In the accompanying photo the mom passes behind the cub, leaving it to eat the whole salmon. Cariboo Chilcotin, BC.
29/02/2024 www.allenfotowild.com
This is a woodland scene off Deer Creek hiking trail designated 4E15 in Tehama County, California, USA. On this particular day in autumn of 2020 I was on the trail searching for fall colors and, while the foliage in this scene hadn’t yet changed, I was struck by the wonderful late afternoon light coming through the trees and the wonderful tones and textures provided by the rocks, deadfall and moss. You can almost make out the creek here as it is just beyond the trees furthest from the camera.
Sunday morning I drove 18km to Munn Road powerline access.
There were trail sections I did not cycle yesterday while here so today they were walked.
NB GoPro video framegrab image
Elgåfossen - Halden - Norway
In this green shade, over the leaves and rubble
of the fallen and still falling, over branches
and tangles of tree roots, over whole stones
and whole nurse logs, beneath the arches,
of ferns and the grottoes of deadfalls,
the moss has spread and deepended an underworld
— David Wagoner
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While I was sitting in a little deadfall beside the stream, photographing any passing kinglets, this wary mink wandered by. It shortly found a dead trout along the bank and hauled its prize back into the dense weeds.
mamiya 6MF 50mm f/4 + kodak portra 160. lab: the icon, los angeles, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: lenstagger.
As shadows form along the lake's banks beneath a setting sun, sports fishermen prepare for a night of fishing. This was shot on Lake Argyle in western Illinois during the fall.
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(Explore 2020 Mar 16, # 151)
Bäume wie dieser halten den Aufprall von schnell fahrenden Autos aus, und sie halten den Aufprall von herabstürzenden tonnenschweren Felsbrocken aus. Beide kann ein Baum dauerhaft zum Stillstand bringen, ohne selbst signifikant verletzt zu werden. Sie sind stark und im Normalfall sehr gut mit dem Boden verwurzelt. Aber gegen Gefahren wie Pilze, Lawinen oder Stürme mit Geschwindigkeiten über 150 km/h sind sie machtlos. Genau so ein Sturm machte dem Leben dieses Baums vor einigen Tagen ein jähes Ende. Seine ganze Stärke half ihm nichts …
Trees like this one tolerate the impact of speedy driving cars, and they tolerate the impact of crashing down rocks, weighing tons. Both can a tree durably stall, without getting itself hurt. They are strong and normally very well rooted with the ground. But against dangers like mycosis, avalanches or storms with speeds over 100 mph they are powerless. And just such a storm brought this tree a few days ago from life to death. His whole strength didn‘t help him ...
..The first appearing view of the towering 80 foot Tamassee Falls (aka Lee Falls) through the forest wilderness in the distance from the rugged scramble ascent up the mountain. Early this morning, my friend Harmon Caldwell and I started out from the trailhead to photograph Tamassee Falls. Steady rain was in the forecast, and it had already been steadily raining 2 hours earlier on the drive up into Upstate South Carolina. By the time we parked at the trailhead, the rain disappeared and ceased as we headed out.
~I have a history with this waterfall. I first visited here some 4 1/2 - 5 years ago. I had sketchy directions, ended up in a bushwhack and on the wrong trail heading up into the wilderness. Eventually, the trail ended on the side of a steep ridgeline where a landslide had taken it out. After almost sliding off the side on the mountain over about a 150 foot drop-off, I managed to sit on the ground and back-kick myself up and out of the treacherous trail slide. I made my way back down on what appeared to be an old logging road laden with deadfall and found myself nearly where I started. I drove back home and over the next few days did more research and found a clearer set of directions written by someone who had made same mistake I had made on my first attempt. I headed back up 4 days later early on a rainy morning and made my way up from the trailhead. I brought flagging tape to flag the trail and this time I was on the right path. After the 5th creek crossing, I tripped on a tree root and fell forward on the trail striking the top of my head on a sharp, extended tree branch and gouged a deep cut across my forehead. I had an extra cloth in my backpack and after soaking and pressing the wound in the creek water for about 30 minutes with compresses to slow the bleeding, I headed up the trail. It was late Summer, and the foliage growing beside, over and across the trail was profuse. I almost made it to the base of the falls on that day, then the rain started. I remember just sitting down in a spirit of thanksgiving, grateful I did not puncture or knock an eye out. I made a few phone shots and headed back down the trail to my van, drove to the CVS in Walhalla where I bought some antiseptic and bandages. Fortunately, I did not need stiches. Today was my first revisit and I was eager to return. Today I found the trails to be much more clearly defined and well used and they were flagged. Harmon and I both enjoyed a great time here today. I'll begin sharing pictures later. I made so many, that it will take me some time to choose what I would like to share.
The reflections of the dead snags form a box with a stump in the center (and a goose lurking in the shadows).
Rideau River near Jones Falls Loskstation.
This chunk of deadfall just downstream from the footbridge on the Bob Jones Trail makes a terrific bird perch. Avila Beach, CA, USA
Forest rejuvenation or forest fire fuel ? Deadfall spotted along the Washington Pass Overlook loop trail.
Washington State Forest Fire status as of Aug 26:
A massive fire burning in north-central Washington is now the largest in the state's history, and is impacting communities in B.C.
The massive Okanogan Complex of wildfires were measured overnight at just over 1,000 square kilometres, said Washington state fire spokesman Rick Isaacson on Monday.
The fires grew by more than 67 square kilometres on Sunday and are expected to spread even more in coming days.
Smoke from the fires could be seen from across southern British Columbia, prompting a smoky skies advisory for most of the region.
Smoky skies advisories remain in place for southern B.C.
The wildfires are slightly bigger than the Carlton fires of 2014, which also burned in Okanogan County and destroyed an estimated 300 homes.
Isaacson warned the fire could burn for several more months. Officials are still trying to determine how many homes and other structures have been destroyed.
About 1,250 people are battling the fires. Last week, three firefighters were killed and four injured near Twisp, Wash.
(aka Yellow Jacket Falls) This double-pronged statuesque beauty of a waterfall marks the special occasion of my 200th Waterfall Excursion! ~In terms of the photo perspective, if you were sitting on that tree trunk across the base of the waterfall, you would be about 1/8 inch high. Deep Dark Secret Falls sits about 150 yards upstream from the previous waterfall photo I shared, "Deep Secret Falls" and in order to reach the base here, one has to scale a near vertical ravine ridgeline on river-right about 150 feet in height climbing above the creek, shift vertically to the NW, bushwhack another 200 feet parallel to the creek and then descend back down the steep ridgeline to cross over fallen trees serving as a passageway to the base. It came to be known as "Yellow Jacket Falls" when waterfall explorer/photographer "Waterfall Rich" visited for the first time, (after receiving word and a topo map from Bernie Boyer who had mapped the locations) stepped into a Yellow Jacket nest and was stung numerous times. There are six major waterfalls in the Crane Creek Gorge. Beginning at the top: Deadfall Falls, Prospector Falls, Deep Dark Secret Falls (Yellow Jacket Falls), Deep Secret Falls (Crane Creek Falls), Secret Falls and Crane Falls. Beginning at Deadfall Falls, Crane Creek drops almost 1000 feet in elevation to Crane Falls, the last waterfall in the bottom of the gorge. It was a great time to make this excursion with my friends and waterfall hiking explorer/photographers Harmon Caldwell, Renee Hattenstein and Scott McGaha.