The Forest Ghosts

[AlanLichty]

I love the look of the big leaf maples in the coastal mountains when the leaves drop and the drooping moss takes on an almost ghostly mood. From a rainy day last fall near Florence, Oregon.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nicely composed. This is nothing compared to some more dense areas where the moss looks scarier.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nicely composed. This is nothing compared to some more dense areas where the moss looks scarier.

Thanks Jameel - fully agree on the more dense forests. The first time I saw anything like this was when my wife and I visited the Hoh Rainforest in late winter 1997. I almost drove the car off the road driving up to the Hoh due to my excessive rubbernecking staring at all of the moss up there.

 

[larryj]

Nice images Alan, thanks for sharing. We spent a day in Florence, OR a few years ago on a visit with our son who lives in Grants Pass. We had a very nice dinner at the marina!

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice images Alan, thanks for sharing. We spent a day in Florence, OR a few years ago on a visit with our son who lives in Grants Pass. We had a very nice dinner at the marina!

Thanks Larry - there are a bunch of neat places to shoot waterfalls, rainforest scenes, and rocky coastlines near Florence so it became one of my favorite places to stay as a home base for day trips.

 

[JimFox]

I like that pathway, and those maples with the moss are so cool to see!

I think I would like to see the road more centered on the bottom, it feels like it's cut off. In this case, I think even just cropping a bit off the bottom, so on the right side the road edge fits into the lower right corner helps the image. Not sure why, but I am visually not fond of roads riding up the sides of a frame.

 

[AlanLichty]

I like that pathway, and those maples with the moss are so cool to see!

I think I would like to see the road more centered on the bottom, it feels like it's cut off. In this case, I think even just cropping a bit off the bottom, so on the right side the road edge fits into the lower right corner helps the image. Not sure why, but I am visually not fond of roads riding up the sides of a frame.

Thanks Jim - I do have the composition with the roadway centered but after seeing it on my screen I wanted the full view of that distant orange roadside maple in the frame. That got cutoff by the tree trunk so I moved to the side for this shot. The comp ended up being centered on the curve in the road ahead to include that.