Cloudland Moors

Lots of fog and red clover on the mountain this morning.

Dreamy image, Tim. I like the combination of reds and greens, and the receding pattern of blooms.

Tim, this image has a real mysterious feel to it. I have seen the red clover all over the area this year, your image has captured it nicely.

Had to get on a good monitor to see this one. The greens are just beautiful! But what I really like is the warm broom sedge interspersed with the red clover, and the fog is...well, fog - my favorite light to shoot in. What a morning to be in the wilderness!

Hey Bill, you should have seen what I got later in the day! While standing under the big overhang down in Dug Hollow shooting a really neat scene with fog in the background downstream, a single beam of sunshine broke through. I took a series of photos with my special wide-angle lens and 6" square polarizer, but then in my haste to move farther down the rock ledges to get a different angle before the sunbeam went away I slipped - when I grabbed the camera the filter came off the front (attached via a crude velcro system of mine) and shattered on the rocks below. $429 plus overnight shipping from Hollywood to replace! (The azaleas are exploding down in Dug Hollow, along with the magnolias too - although the magnolia blooms are all small this year.) Other than that one mishap it was a SPLENDID day all day long to be out shooting!

I knew Dug must be looking pretty nice...Eddy S. loaned me his gate key so I could get down to his place while he's off at fire fighting school for a week.

Odd that you mentioned the filter mishap. I was talking to Joe W. in Rogers just yesterday about his mishap with a Phase One. Somehow he scratched the sensor as he was removing the back...so I guess it could be worse.

Ouch, that must have hurt! I don't worry about the big camera much anymore as my insurance is good for major items, but with a high deductible and a dislike of filing claims (I almost never do unless it is really major), the smaller mishaps are what cost me the most since I always pay for them out of my pocket. Now I will design a more-secure attachment system for this big filter so some good will come out of it. (don't know who Joe w. is, but he must be poor if he has one of the backs from Denmark)

Great find Tim, a beautiful "pastorial" setting.

Sorry to hear about the filter. My latest mishap was merely losing a lens caps in the Strait of Juan de Fuca while on a whale watching charter. Not much by comparison.