Olympic Mountains Loop Trip

Roger_Barnett

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Mike Oxman told me about a Stihl Timbersports Qualifier event in Shelton..called me Friday, the event was Saturday. Knowing he has visited the Olympic many times, even led tree climbing expeditions there, I suggested we head to the rain forest afterwards. Hard to believe I had never visited any of the big trees or areas, having only been in the area a few times, including taking my 65 yr old mom on a short backpacking trip along the Pacific back around 1980. Both my current cameras have an in camera HDR feature which takes three shots, and takes out the brights and darks and combines the three images into a fourth one. This works great for high dynamic range scenes likes sun lit forests and sunsets.... I was a whirling dervish with the cameras, shooting some 2600 images, which included a ~480 image time lapse of a sunrise over Lake Quinault, but there was nothing happening--little or no color and no clouds to show movement.

Here's a video which includes shots and vids of four record trees, lots of other trees and scenes, Rialto Beach, and a couple sunsets and sunrises...plus a herd of Roosevelt Elk I surprised.


album-72157669030536131

The images are also on flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/albums/72157669030536131

and www.facebook.com/roger.barnett.96 for those of you who FB who haven't seen them or aren't on my friend list....
 
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It is amazing! The diversity of flora is bigger than in the cali redwood forest.....but certainly still no match for a tropical rainforest-----Costa Rica will be the first that I visit---and, for the fauna even moreso than the flora, I'm sure....what with bird photography being so big for me......
 

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