Forests are often viewed from grand vistas showing vast tracts of trees but in the Pacific NW the best views are scenes under the forest canopy where you are enveloped in it instead.
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon:
A trail scene in the Trapper Creek Wilderness Area. Gifford Pinchot National...
Nice - that's a higher flow rate than I have seen at those falls. I like this PoV of the scene - only workable at the early hour of the morning you favor for your visits.
Wow - that's a really nice long drop-off for the water draining this mountain basin. Neat series of falls. You could have a field day shooting small scenes from this viewpoint with a telephoto lens.
Thanks Trent - I was surprised to find the sequence of the bumble bee in the cluster of shots I took of the bee - those 3 shots depict 1/10th of a second at 30 frames/second. I did not spot that while I was shooting at all.
I'll toss in a reflection shot from Salmon Creek with a Great Blue Heron looking for lunch:
I was out shooting pollinators working over my blueberry blooms and caught a fun sequence with a big bumble bee demonstrating how gravity works with a loose blossom it decided to check out:
My waterfall for this week is a winter view of Palisade Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. Everyone driving on I-84 through the Gorge passes by these falls located directly below the Crown Point Vista House but beyond a glimpse of them through the trees there are no good viewpoints of the falls...
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