Up on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park last weekend I gazed at the distant horizon of the Olympic Mountain Range, a floating parade of glacier-covered peaks. Marching out to the Olympic mountain tops were folded hills covered in dark spruce and fir. Closer by, the slopes were clad in gold grass sprinkled with evergreens. At my feet, there was yet another horizon, a thin veil of grass stems: horizon heaped upon horizon, as far as I could see.
This week’s Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge is “Horizon” – you might broaden yours by checking out a heap of horizons here.
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I really need to do some exploring up in Washington. 😉
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Hey, let me know if you’re coming! And guess what – I have beach photos coming…
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I love mountain horizons like these, Lynn.
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THe feeling one gets when one is high up – the absolut stillness, the clarity (and the thin air 😉 !) are intoxicating. The photos are nowhere near the experience, right?
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That’s right, Lynn. It seems you can never really capture the experience. 🙂
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That’s an unusual perspective and a great take on the challenge!
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Thanks – I’m glad you see the idea –
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Interesting colour perspective.
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That’s pretty much what I saw – the more distant hills are very, very blue, and the grasses are pure gold.
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Such a beautiful view!
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This is truly beautiful !. A great photo for the challenge. I love it. Thank you for sharing, Blue. best wishes.
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And to you. I enjoyed your mountain horizons too – how I love the tropics!
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This nature looks so wild. did you take the picture from the road? fantastic.
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Not exactly – It’s a national park, and one road climbs up and up, back into the mountains. At the end is a visitors center and of course, parking lots. This view is right there by the visitors center! It is indeed very wild in this part of the world, and that’s one of the things that attracted me to it – one BIG reason I moved here.
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Very unlikely with our National Parks here, we don’t have any vehicle access in the forest. Once we make a track, the other day will be disappeared by the fast growing vegetation.
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Superb photography!
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Thank you for stopping by – I appreciate it!
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Absolutely gorgeous, and such different geography from here on the East Coast. I love the contrast in the light, thin grasses and the dark, dense mountains behind. Wonderful, thank you for sharing.
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Nice to hear from you – I have to pay you a visit! Thanks for your comments, I appreciate it. Too bad I didn’t come up with a profoundly simple haiku…but no matter, the photo is enough.
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A beautiful visual rhythm to this photo, Lynn. I suspect it might have been one of those “time stands still while I regard the beauty” moments for you.
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It does Lynn. I just love it. I love the feeling I have when I’m up high. One can’t help but be taken in by the view, but bending down and shooting it through those golden grasses made it more fun.
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Excellent horizons, I especially like the way you described the secondary, grass horizon. Nicely done!
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Thank you for commenting Tina and I’m glad you like that – it’s a beautiful view but I saw more than that, and I was glad that the photo turned out. Couldn’t decide if I wanted to remove the reflection (I was shooting into the sun) so I just left it.
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A magnificent horizon view BB !
The natural interweaving and criss crossing of the blue mountains is beautifully set off with your foreground .
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It’s quite a place and you’re right, those hills have a great rhythm all their own. Thanks!
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Wow. Just … wow.
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What a shot! 🙂 There are some beauties for this challenge, Lynn, but yours is a real gem.
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You’re very kind!
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Gorgeous, gorgeous photo!
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gorgeous!
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Catching up here. Good grief I dislike missing any of your posts. If only I could do more than one thing at a time! UGH! Okay, let me just say, looking at this image on my 27″ iMac is a treat. It just lights up the monitor with its vivid colors and sharpness. Love how the grass in the foreground looks like I could reach out and touch it, it is so real. And the mountains, oh the mountains. Except for summer camp in NC I have never lived around mountains yet find them so breathtakingly beautiful. The flat lands of Alabama’s Black Belt – not so inspiring! 🙂
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To see those leaves of grass waving in the wind from such a height, a magnificent shot indeed Lyn!
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Gorgeous!
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