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Laurence
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 Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:09 pm Post subject: My Old Friend, The Sitka Spruce - Velvia |
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Laurence wrote:
I've watched this tree for nearly 55 years now. Unfortunately, I don't
think it's going to stay upright too much longer, as it seems to lean a
little more every couple of years that I visit.  I'm sure the small
creek in the foreground is saturating the soil, and increasing the
possibility of falling soon.
The scale is hard to grasp here. The tree looks relatively small in the
image, and maybe I should have put something in front for showing just
how big this guy is.
It's not the LARGEST Sitka Spruce around, but it still has a diameter of
right around 3.3 meters (13 feet or so).
I'm just showing it, because it is another one of those "memory shots",
and not necessarily a technically excellent image, although I do like
the nice light in the background.
There is a nice grove of additional Sitka Spruce trees that are all large,
about 1/2 mile away. Just pass this tree on the right and take a bearing
of about 25 degrees and keep walking, and it pops right into view after
20 minutes or so.
A compass is VERY handy in the rain forest, since it's
hard to see where you are going and the forest is so complex.
Sitka Spruce Memories
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Velvia
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shauttra
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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shauttra wrote:
I can imagine the scale by fern, impressive 
His time is slowly comming to end..
Tell me please something about wildlife animals in these woods.
Everything looks so calm, i can`t imagine any sound, even wind...
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Laurence
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Laurence wrote:
| shauttra wrote: |
I can imagine the scale by fern, impressive
His time is slowly comming to end..
Tell me please something about wildlife animals in these woods.
Everything looks so calm, i can`t imagine any sound, even wind... |
Well, once he falls, it won't take long to break down into the constituent
soil elements. So, he will feed the forest.
You are correct, there was no wind. In the summer months of
July, August, and September there is usually very calm weather.
In fact, it can get quite hot on some days. This comes as a surprise
to some people, because it is a true rain forest that receives huge
amounts of rain overall.
You mentioned animals - a little deeper into these woods I heard some
elk bugling in the distance, which isn't uncommon.
Deer are very abundant.
Sometimes a fox shows up.
Seldom do you see a cougar, although they are very common here.
Bears are also in great numbers here in the Spring, but they follow
the snow melt to higher and higher elevations. By September
and October the bears are in the highest meadows gorging on
dwarf blueberries (Vaccinium deliciosum).
Chipmunks and squirrels are everywhere, as well as Winter Wrens and
Pileated Woodpeckers. Also, Flickers are trilling their double-note song.
There is a huge number of "unseen" animals such as voles, mountain
beavers, minks, weasels, skunks, etc.
And the world under the ground is filled with countless species
of invertebrates AND vertebrates.
Also, there are truffles and HUGE living organisms called
Michorriza, which are a filamentous plant that transfers
organic compounds to elements such as phosphorous, sulfur,
nitrogen, and oxygen. These plants sometimes are over an acre
in size, and tend to be genetic clones. They are super-important
to the health of the forest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza
No snakes of any issue, except for an occasional garter snake.
Various species of frogs and salamanders.
Trout in most streams. Steelhead and Salmon in the main rivers.
There's a lot more, but this is the basic ecological makeup.
Larry
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Konica TC and zoom lenses (thanks Carsten)
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agent_cooper
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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agent_cooper wrote:
Laurence, tell me please where this place is.
It's not Washington, isn't it?
regards
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spleenone
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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spleenone wrote:
Wow, what fauna and flora you have there and how generous your pics could be with that view.
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Laurence
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Laurence wrote:
Well, these areas are in the protected Olympic National Park, so they have
maintained their pristine nature since the Ice Age.
Olympic National Park is on the World Heritage List, and some other
top lists as well. Some of the purest water in the world, and the air
coming off the North Pacific has been cleaned so well, that tests have
shown the air to carry some of lowest pollutant levels in the world.
It's a small National Park, but super-varied. There is a wild seashore
strip that is separated from the main part of the Park. The main part
consists of lowland rain forest, mid-elevation biomes of large trees,
and upper elevation meadows, streams and glaciers.
Although smaller than some, if you were to stretch it out flat, it would be
huge. There are thousands of high ridges running everywhere, and a
complex drainage pattern that generally is "radial", in that it more or
less comes out of a center area (sort of like hands on a clock all
radiating out from the center of the clock).
The ridges rise out of very
low elevations, almost sea level - to up to 7000 feet or so. That is not
very high by most mountain standards, but because it is situated right
on the coast, the terrain has been through many glacial periods, so
everything is carved up and incised. So far, the main glaciers have not
suffered loss of mass too much, although some of the smaller glaciers
have disappeared in the past 40 years.
Rainfall on the west side averages 14 to 16 feet. So that's about what...4.5 meters or so?
Larry
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And handled with a chain.
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Cameras and Lenses in Use:
Yashica Mat 124 w/ Yashinon 80/3.5,
CV Apo-Lanthar 90/3.5SL, (Thank you Klaus),
Pentax 645,
Flek 50,
Pentax-A 150
Pentax-A 120 Macro
Voigtlander Vitomatic I w/Color Skopar 50/2.8
Konica TC and zoom lenses (thanks Carsten)
Contax AX
Yashica ML 50/2
Yashica ML 35/2.8
Carl Zeiss Contax 50/1.4
Tamron Adaptall SP 17/3.5
Tamron Adaptall 28/2.5
Tamron Adaptall SP 300/2.8 LD (IF)
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