gf beranek
Old Schooler
Terri and I went back to the Sequoia National Park again and covered more new trail. About 5 miles every day for 6 days. While that doesn't sound like a lot of hiking I swear we put on a couple more miles a day just going off trail to get some of these pictures. Many of the trees you see in these pics are 50 to a hundred yards off the main paths. Some more.
There's near 10 miles of trail in the park that we haven't covered, so another trip is in order to fill in the blanks. Though we will be covering all the trails again in reverse order on future trips, so as to catch the morning light at opposite ends of each trail.
The lightening was certainly not the best this time around. Too much snow and clear skies made for very high contrast conditions in the woods. The cull rate for the number of images taken was higher than I expected. Out of over one-thousand images I managed to glean about 50. I use the in camera HDR function to process a few of these images, but it's just a band-aid at best.
Anyway, these are some of the largest trees we found on the trails this time around. In a few more years I should have all the largest Sequoias in these parks cataloged by trails.
There's near 10 miles of trail in the park that we haven't covered, so another trip is in order to fill in the blanks. Though we will be covering all the trails again in reverse order on future trips, so as to catch the morning light at opposite ends of each trail.
The lightening was certainly not the best this time around. Too much snow and clear skies made for very high contrast conditions in the woods. The cull rate for the number of images taken was higher than I expected. Out of over one-thousand images I managed to glean about 50. I use the in camera HDR function to process a few of these images, but it's just a band-aid at best.
Anyway, these are some of the largest trees we found on the trails this time around. In a few more years I should have all the largest Sequoias in these parks cataloged by trails.
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