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These photographs were taken on the Snowqualmie Valley Regional Trail in Duvall, Washington. The 31 mile trail passes through a lush agricultural valley, with the Cascade Range to the east. Bordered by tall native trees and very level, it’s a favorite of dog walkers, joggers and mountain bikers. Rivers and streams that are important for salmon weave through this valley, and many of the local farms here are certified “Salmon Safe” – a farm program that protects habitat for salmon.
Herbs, specialty vegetables, Christmas trees, blueberries, and native plants are some of the crops you might see from the trail. But these photos were taken right on the trail, where native plants are common – there are bracken ferns, Big Leaf Maples, wild cherries and maybe, hiding in plain sight, a few harmless snakes out sunning themselves.
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Beautiful, dreamy shots. Looks like you were having some fun with a macro lens. 🙂
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I would love to be able to afford one, but not yet! But you’re right, something different is going on – it’s a set of Hoya filters that magnify, and I stacked a 2x and a 4x together. I don’t know if you’ve ever used them – they’re like poor man’s macros – you have to get close to the subject, and there’s lots of distortion, but you can get good effects. I’m eager to play with them some more.
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I remember my Hoya filters from the 35mm days. They certainly were fun to play with!
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Gorgeous shots. Dreamy is a good adjective.
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Thank you – it turned out to be a very pretty day, though it started with threatening rain clouds. So it was like a dream, in the end.
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Those are the best days! 🙂
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Most definitely softly dreamy!
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And we can use a bit of that!
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soothing soft colours and beautiful shapes 🙂
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It was a soothing day…
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These are so wonderfully atmospheric, Lynn! What is the plant in the fifth photo from the top? It evokes an image of a flock of baby hummingbirds…
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It’s moss, close up! Those are the sporophytes and it’s probably a really common moss called Red Roof Moss, that grows everywhere. What an idea – a flock of baby hummingbirds! Makes me think of that hummingbird cam we used to watch.
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Delightful use of light and soft focusing. I particularly like the last image.
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Good to hear – It’s so busy and complex, but I thought it worked, and I thought it really conveyed the feeling of the place and time.
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Great depth of field in these, Lynn. And I love the soft complimentary pinks and greens.
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Yes, those gentle spring colors, like you could melt into them, right?
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Exactly!
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The forest is alive. Your focus is fascinating. Beautiful shots.
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Love your delicate touch Lyn, all such a pleasure!
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Thanks, Patti – There have been a lot of high contrast photos around my site, so it was time to get soft.
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Lynn, your ability to capture light in your photos is uncanny – each image drew me in to look more closely at the magic. Lovely, lovely, lovely.
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What a nice thing to hear – it IS magic out there, isn’t it?
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Oh .. each of these photos is a beauty … seeing through your lens these exquisite tiny details is so lovely BB … you really show your connection with the natural world . Infused with April’s soft light indeed .
… now … the softly tied knot through the wire is very intriguing … yes … I feel thrown back in time …. one glorious summer … dancing ’til dawn …
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Yes! What fun to follow your words following my images! 🙂
I did a series of the knotted rags on the barbed wire fence – they’re back there somewhere – I’ll have to dig them up and get them out again.
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Simply beautiful Lynn!
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Thank you!
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How do you do this? Every single time…every single time… I am in awe.
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Liana, you’re flattering me…it’s the nature itself, really, that does it.
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Wonderful. 🙂
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🙂 back at ya Scott.
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🙂
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Nicely done Lynn– the image on the bottom would make a wonderful print.
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Love the barest hint of water in that one, down at the bottom.
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You saw it – that’s the kind of thing that you see clearly when you take the photo but them it’s not as prominent as you would have liked when you see it later, and so you bump up the blue just the tiniest bit…it was such a lovely day.
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Thank you for that suggestion…so, how big and on what? have to think about that.
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I think it’d look great as a large print on any fine art paper. I like that diaphanous feeling you caught so I’d be tempted to remove the distracting diagonal reed in the extreme lower right corner.
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Stunningly beautiful images! : )))
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Wow, such beautiful dreamy images!
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