Lower North Fork

[AlanLichty]

Looking upstream from the confluence of the North Fork and Smith Rivers. The worst part about this road was the lack of turnouts to stop and grab shots with all the fall colors. This area was pretty easy access for the early settlers coming up from the coastal estuary of the Smith and Umpqua Rivers. Clearing the forests for pastureland was quick and simple using the rivers to transport the harvested timber down to the mills in Garden City and Reedsport. On the one hand there is almost no old growth forest around this location but the deeply disturbed forests means more deciduous trees for fall colors. Single frame at 24mm.

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[JimFox]

This view is so cool. An impossible view to capture without the drone or a helicopter. I don't recall seeing other views of this, so it almost feels like virgin photography.

 

[AlanLichty]

This view is so cool. An impossible view to capture without the drone or a helicopter. I don't recall seeing other views of this, so it almost feels like virgin photography.

Thanks Jim - you have hit on one of the reasons I am so sold on using drones for photography up in the Pacific NW. As you look around from the air the first thing you notice is how different everything looks from up there as opposed to the limited views from the ground. Every high place you see is smothered in tall trees that obscure any far reaching views of the terrain like what you see in the shot above. I have set up my camera backpack to carry my camera and some lenses - along with my drone so I can always have a choice of whether to shoot from the ground or the air.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Interesting landscape for sure. I like the left right green yellow play of color in this.

 

[AlanLichty]

Interesting landscape for sure. I like the left right green yellow play of color in this.

Thanks Jameel - technicolor Yin-Yang

 

[BlackRockArt]

Looking upstream from the confluence of the North Fork and Smith Rivers. The worst part about this road was the lack of turnouts to stop and grab shots with all the fall colors. This area was pretty easy access for the early settlers coming up from the coastal estuary of the Smith and Umpqua Rivers. Clearing the forests for pastureland was quick and simple using the rivers to transport the harvested timber down to the mills in Garden City and Reedsport. On the one hand there is almost no old growth forest around this location but the deeply disturbed forests means more deciduous trees for fall colors. Single frame at 24mm.

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Alan, what an eye candy ! I have driven by many times, I have always wondered what it looks like from the air.

Love it,

thanks for sharing.

Oliver

 

[AlanLichty]

Alan, what an eye candy ! I have driven by many times, I have always wondered what it looks like from the air.

Love it,

thanks for sharing.

Oliver

Thanks Oliver - there are quite a few rivers that flow into the Pacific from the Oregon Coast Range that are quite similar from the air with the cleared pasturelands at the bottom and wildly winding rivers/streams. Its quite difficult to make out the river channel paths from the ground.