Huckleberry leaves at Takh Takh Meadow
Last week, I was in Washington state's Cascade Mountain Range south of Mt Rainier and north of the Columbia River... I started at the Mount Tahoma Trails Association's The Yurt for a couple days of work helping install the new laminate floor and some other tasks to get the hut ready for the snow season (I'm the manager of The Yurt - yurtmeister Pat and I switched roles this summer so now I'm the manager... he's still 'the Yurtmeister' though as I'll never come close to all he's accomplshed during his time as manager) After a couple days, I left the Tahoma State Forest and headed south to the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and the Indian Heaven Wilderness... then a jaunt to the Klickitat Canyon to see that the leaves had not turned yet. Then, I returned to The Yurt for another couple days to help with work on re-electrifying...
Along the way, in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, I stopped for an afternoon at Takh Takh Meadow to photograph the Huckleberry bushes until rain pushed me back to the van to drive south to meet some friends at the Forlorn Lakes and the next day, a jaunt up into the Indian Heaven Wilderness. Here's a photo from Takh Takh Meadow (pronounced 'talk talk' with a 'click' that the native peoples of the Pacific Northwest use in a lot of their native languages.)
Raindrops beading up on waxy Huckleberry leaves in autumn
Takh Takh Meadow - Gifford Pinchot National Forest - Washington state
©2010 Ed Book
I used my Canon 180mm prime macro lens with Canon 1Ds MkII camera body. Luckily, there was no air movement so I could stop down to about f/32 resulting in the need for slow shutter speed (>1 second). At f/32 all the dust on the sensor shouted at me when I viewed the images in Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 so a few hours were spent dust-spotting...
Peace
Along the way, in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, I stopped for an afternoon at Takh Takh Meadow to photograph the Huckleberry bushes until rain pushed me back to the van to drive south to meet some friends at the Forlorn Lakes and the next day, a jaunt up into the Indian Heaven Wilderness. Here's a photo from Takh Takh Meadow (pronounced 'talk talk' with a 'click' that the native peoples of the Pacific Northwest use in a lot of their native languages.)
Raindrops beading up on waxy Huckleberry leaves in autumn
Takh Takh Meadow - Gifford Pinchot National Forest - Washington state
©2010 Ed Book
I used my Canon 180mm prime macro lens with Canon 1Ds MkII camera body. Luckily, there was no air movement so I could stop down to about f/32 resulting in the need for slow shutter speed (>1 second). At f/32 all the dust on the sensor shouted at me when I viewed the images in Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 so a few hours were spent dust-spotting...
Peace