Off-Trail Meadow Wandering
Sep 12, 2017 18:05:13 #
Laurence68
Loc: Olympic Peninsula, WA
Wandering the meadows a couple days out from the car. Olympic National Park, Washington.
Out for 5 days on this cross country jaunt, which consisted of miles and miles of alternating meadows and trees.
Nobody around at all. Many elk bugling during the early evenings. Black Bears here and there, all ignoring me and concentrating on blueberries.
Fuji GX680 bellows camera
Fujinon 125/5.6 lens
f:16 and 1/125th
Fuji Provia 100F
Out for 5 days on this cross country jaunt, which consisted of miles and miles of alternating meadows and trees.
Nobody around at all. Many elk bugling during the early evenings. Black Bears here and there, all ignoring me and concentrating on blueberries.
Fuji GX680 bellows camera
Fujinon 125/5.6 lens
f:16 and 1/125th
Fuji Provia 100F
Sep 12, 2017 21:31:15 #
I like the downward perspective on this scene...it somehow, to me, makes it a more intimate portrait of the lovely site.
I gather from other images of yours, and commentary, that most such bodies of open water are stream-fed. Are there any areas where ground water is seasonally sufficiently high as to support evenescent fens?
Dave
I gather from other images of yours, and commentary, that most such bodies of open water are stream-fed. Are there any areas where ground water is seasonally sufficiently high as to support evenescent fens?
Dave
Sep 14, 2017 14:33:04 #
Laurence68 wrote:
Wandering the meadows a couple days out from the car. Olympic National Park, Washington.
Out for 5 days on this cross country jaunt, which consisted of miles and miles of alternating meadows and trees.
Nobody around at all. Many elk bugling during the early evenings. Black Bears here and there, all ignoring me and concentrating on blueberries.
Fuji GX680 bellows camera
Fujinon 125/5.6 lens
f:16 and 1/125th
Fuji Provia 100F
Out for 5 days on this cross country jaunt, which consisted of miles and miles of alternating meadows and trees.
Nobody around at all. Many elk bugling during the early evenings. Black Bears here and there, all ignoring me and concentrating on blueberries.
Fuji GX680 bellows camera
Fujinon 125/5.6 lens
f:16 and 1/125th
Fuji Provia 100F
This photo makes me want to go there! Well done.
Erich
Sep 16, 2017 23:28:48 #
Laurence68
Loc: Olympic Peninsula, WA
Uuglypher wrote:
I like the downward perspective on this scene...it somehow, to me, makes it a more intimate portrait of the lovely site.
I gather from other images of yours, and commentary, that most such bodies of open water are stream-fed. Are there any areas where ground water is seasonally sufficiently high as to support evenescent fens?
Dave
I gather from other images of yours, and commentary, that most such bodies of open water are stream-fed. Are there any areas where ground water is seasonally sufficiently high as to support evenescent fens?
Dave
There are a few fen structures, mostly in the very lowest elevation subalpine areas. They are not extensive in the high country though, possibly because the terrain is mostly tilted, at least on a "global" scale.
There ARE evenescent fens out on the coastal western areas of the Olympic Peninsula; a few are Carbon-14 dated to about 65,000 years, so have actually endured the several ice ages of that period of time. Peat deposits in those fens average about 65-120 feet deep; the surface supports endemic plants that typically grow in that habitat only.
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