On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > One more PESO before I go to a GESO of my trip (since most were pretty > ordinary shots -- I am out of practice not having done photography for eight > months or more). > > This is probably the most interesting one I got on my trip. > > The Olympic National Forest (Washington) was beautiful, but so was the > Willamette National Forest (Oregon). Until, that is, I got to a heavily > burned > out section around sunset. I know some believe fires are good for thinning > out forests, well, most of this was not thinned out but completely burned. > > It was very sad. > > A day later, while I was in Medford, the whole Rogue River Valley filled > with smoke from a big fire around the Crater Lake area. According to the > Medford newspaper today (online) it is still very smoky and residents are > advised to avoid breathing it. Oregon and California keep getting too little > rain and keep being too dry... > > http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/notice.htm > > Comments, welcome.
You've captured a starkly beautiful image, Marnie. Lovely (if sad). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
