Wet meadow (muskeg) with stunted western hemlock trees (Tsuga heterophylla) festooned with moss, usnea (Usnea longissima) and rusty menziesia or false azalea or fool's huckleberry (Menziesia ferruginea) and western skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus).
I particularly used to enjoy photographing the lush vegetation at Port Houghton during the extended twilight in the summer. Using a tripod I took very long exposures of more than a minute, and the results were very atmospheric. As the light slowly faded the lighter features of the scene like the pastel green shade of the leaves of the rusty menziesia, and the usnea or old man's beard dripping from the trees, appeared to become luminous and suspended in the encroaching darkness, giving a ghostly life to the stunted trees.
- Filename
- Alaska-vegetation12.jpg
- Copyright
- Duncan Murrell
- Image Size
- 5564x3786 / 27.9MB
- Contained in galleries
- Meadows and Muskeg
