As the end of the Northwest “shooting season” draws near, I (along with many other of the area’s photographers) find myself rushing to get in as much of autumn as I can before hunkering down to the coming four-to-five months of steady rain, slate-gray skies, bare branches, and brown vegetation. (Not that there’s nothing to [...]
While rewarding, the Hoh Rain Forest is, by far, the most difficult forest subject I’ve ever shot. Compared to the Hoh, other forests in Washington state (including the Sol Duc Trail, Grove of the Patriarchs, and so on) have a certain flow — there’s a layering of trees, undergrowth, rivers, and other features that make [...]
The first thing you notice are the crickets. There are hundreds of them — colliding with you, getting in the way of your compostion while the shutter is open, perching on grasses and stones. Why so many? You start to wonder what could explain the cricket population — is there a typical predator that hasn’t [...]
