Equisetum
The lower part of the fire access road into the Friday Harbor marine station’s forested land is lined with horse tails (Equisetum).
Although these are a wonderful green, I thought the black and white conversion worked well to show off the texture and the bokeh it produces with a shallow depth of field.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50/1.4 lens, ISO 100, f-1.8, 1/320th second.
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 
Beautiful. Very artistic eye. I just love what you see.
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Thank you Ryan! I have just spent two weeks taking technical photographs for an archaeology project and I don’t think they would have appreciated this approach to documentation so I had to suppress it a bit, though I bit did creep in. It will be interesting for me to see which images they choose for their powerpoint presentations and other uses.
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Just so you know I like this swampy photo and havent stoppped looking at Burnt Embers just because you arent there to reply to comments!
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Hi Valerie – thanks for commenting even though I am away. I have always liked equisetum ever since I learned as a kid that giant forms of this plant co-existed with dinosaurs. Now that I am becoming a bit of a dinosaur (according to my youngest colleague) I like them even more.
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Great shot you have there! =)
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Hi, thanks so much 🙂
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