Forest Light
These pictures emphasize the quality of light found in a south coastal forest, in this case on the Friday Harbor marine station lands.
The black and white conversions were chosen to show the reflected light coming from different species in the understory.
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- Ground lichen
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- Western redcedar branches
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- Lichen branches
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- Salal leaves
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- Ferns
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- forest path
Canon 5Dii, Canon 50/1.4 lens, ISO 100, various exposures
This post was scheduled in advance as I am out of town and completely off grid for the first two weeks of June. Naturally I won’t be answering any comments until I get back – but please, don’t hesitate to comment, I will do my best to respond when I can.
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burnt embers 
Nice. I especially like the forest path shot.
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Thanks Danita! I like that one too. It is interesting for me to look at these again after being away for a couple of weeks, living and working at the edge of a very different forest on Haida Gwaii – a very wet forest smothered in moss and lichen. I don’t have too many shots of it, but enough to make a post or two I think, by way of comparison.
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I love this B&W study! There’s something very powerful in the contrasts that are found here. Great work!
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Thank you Toad – I am please you like them – I see that most of the comments on this post are from people that live in the Douglas Fir zone, which suggests that the pictures work for this kind of environment.
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Hello Ehpem, you have a great series of photos here. They definitely catch the spirit of forest.
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Hi Joseph! Thanks so much – I know you walk in this kind of forest on a regular basis, so I am glad that these pictures capture some of the experience 🙂
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Beautiful!
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Thank you Lynn!
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