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"Rich Border, roving reporter for Ghost Writers Magazine, here with the spirit of Douglas Fir. Doug, can you tell our audience about your fateful day?"
"Well I'll tell ya Rich, it was a Sunday morning as you know, I was standing here on this ridgeline with thousands of my friends swaying gently in the breeze soaking up some water and taking in the rays I was three hundred years old at the time so I was just getting my day started when all of a sudden the Earth began to shake. That's when the mountain that I'd spent my whole life admiring, you know they called it the Fuji of the North West because she had the most perfectly shaped dome, that's when the front of the mountain exploded and collapsed, I don't remember anything after that."
"Well thank you for that rousing interview Mr. Fir, back to you Walter."
"And that's the way it was."
Heading West...photos from this year's visit to the west coast. We began the visit in northern Idaho in mid- October..
A county commissioner from San Juan County Utah illegally led a group of scofflaws through roadless wilderness areas on their noisy off road vehicles. He is being asked to pay a higher fine. He is a criminal. Back in the day.
Heading West...photos from this year's visit to the west coast. We began the visit in northern Idaho.
Tango Alpha Tango played the Doug Fir for the final time on 19 Aug, 2023. The venue will likely resurface elsewhere, but this was the end of a glorious era. This vital band band and this remarkable venue have both meant a great deal to me in my life, so it was a show I could not miss.
I brought my 51-year-old FD 28mm lens out of retirement for this show, because I love how it renders b&w. Tango Alpha Tango are so dynamic live, I just wanted the one shot with Nathan and Miri rocking out, playing off each other, and they delivered.
I could talk for hours about this photo and this night, but you've got some more scrolling to do so get on.
The trail to the summit of Table Mountain winds through bear grass and fir trees coated in a layer of hoar frost. The Douglas firs abundant resin protects the living tissue below the bark from the freezing temperatures. This very same resin makes these trees highly flammable, though older trees grow a thick layer of bark which can protect from smaller fires, younger trees such as these have resin filled blisters on the surface, in warm temperatures simply pressing with a finger can burst a blister.
With this winters low precipitation it's looking more and more likely that 2014 will be another intense year for wildfires in the North West.
It may not look it, but the thick trunked tree on the right side of the frame is the tallest Doug Fir, and non-redwood tree on the planet. Standing 327 feet....and 3 inches tall, it is likely somewhere between 450 and 500 years old. The "Doerner Fir" as it's known, lives in the SW Coastal range in Coos County in a very nondescript but beautiful area. A labyrinth of roads and a lush hike through the forest lead you to this behemoth.
While this tree is truly impressive, it is also not extremely photogenic in the classical sense. It is located just around a bend with a lot of other trees obscuring most of the views. The trail more or less dead ends and has a small valley below so finding different angles is a real challenge.
All of this was fine by me though as access and restricted viewpoints also add to the atmosphere and its place in the forest. In order to see the Doerner Fir in all of its towering glory you have to pay it a visit.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm
Photo taken at Portland's Mt Tabor Park for Our Daily Challenge: Trees
And Tree-mendous Tuesday. HTMT everyone!
Did a twenty mile hike in the snow. Was promised that the snow plow would be coming, making the walk back easy, and allowing me to go further out than I would have normally. Learned later that the blade on the plow broke.....I got back way after dark and could barely walk for about two days.
Colors and outfit by my girlfriend
It's been a new found fun shooting together
Treyon Park
So much Ivy!! I think it's bad for the tress, but wow- stunning.
The only 2-lane, covered bridge in Illinois, built in 2006.
Captain Swift was a seafaring captain from Boston that settled in Princeton. The previous bridge was named after him and then this one. His ghost is said to haunt the bridge.
I ran into this group of hip portland kids bumping Cameo-Word Up. They said its their sunday ritual. I enjoyed it.
Photo taken for Our Daily Challenge: Four
And Todays Posting #66: Horizon
And 112 Pictures in 2012 #17: Hill(s), Mountain(s) or Slope(s)
And 100 Possibilities Project - Mt Hood #9
This is Mt Hood at sunrise seen from Mt Tabor Park in Portland, Oregon.
See below, an alternative for Four and Horizon. The sun rises quite a bit south of the mountain at this time of the year, so you can't get the sunrise and the mountain in the same shot.
Both photos are SOOC except for a slight crop on the mountain shot.
This is the first time I've been to the Doug Fir as I live and usually photograph bands in Chicago. The Doug Fir was really interesting. It reminded me quite a bit of The Black Lodge in Lynch's Twin Peaks with wood everywhere you looked and this sort of Paul Bunyan meets film noir sort of look.
Anyhow, John Vanderslice's new album White WIlderness is especially great, though I am a sucker for orchestrated music. He isn't touring with an orchestra but he did a great job making the songs sound great between him, his drummer, and a multitude of friends as guest stars.
In this moment, he was actually giving props to two friends who biked from California 600miles to see him..and they brought cookies too!
Vanderslice is glorious fun live. He ended his set dancing with the crowd (unfortunately, not a ton of light on the floor) to oddly enough Ghostface Killah
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