Winding Path

Same time as we did the Hurricane Hill trail. This is the trail which leads to the top of hill where we get the white carpet view. I have always been awed with the views from Hurricane Ridge in Olympics - the backdrop of towering mountains gives very nice perspectives and enormity of nature.

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In the Forest

Same place as Baby Steps. After the two went off, I wanted to capture this as the back-light gave a very nice ambiance to the place. Also the overall frame looked balanced for exposure.

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Hidden Treasure

So many beautiful things are just around the corner of the path we travel - we just have to look around to notice it. Same thing happened as we did a trail in Quanault lake in Olympics National Forest.

Baby steps

Quite a symbolic picture ... parent preparing the child to face the challenge of life.

This was taken in Olympic National Forest (WA, US) on a trail near Quinault lake.

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Dreamy Path

In my company photography DL, it was the first time I heard of Orton effect - it was an effect I had seen in lot many pics, but did not know how it was achieved. As I read more about it on the net, it was definitely something quite tricky in film age, but considering today's digital photography it is just a matter of minutes of post processing.
This picture was on way to Hoh rain forest in Olympic national park - around mid-Oct and mid of fall season. It was quite sometime that our team of photo enthusiasts spent on this stretch to capture the fall magic.

The White Carpet

Posting after a long time ! Very luckily got a very nice Saturday when my friends landed up in Seattle and we went to Hurricane Ridge. The mountains and the trails seemed to be covered by fresh snow which had just started in the region - early winter. As usual I had clicked pics with 0EV resulting in all the snow snow pics coming out under-exposed. As I downloaded the pics, it struck me that I had read sometime back - snow pics as rule of thumb should be +2EV. The above pic was thus processed for brightness. The trail was the Hurricane Hill trail in the Olympic national park.