Hoh Rainforest

I have just returned from an awesome 2 week trip to the west coast of the USA. We started in the Olympic National Park and then went down all the way to San Francisco. So there are a lot of photos I'll have to show you over the next weeks.

I'll start with a picture I took in the Hoh Rainforest. Well I expected a lot of this place and it is really beautiful. But during sunshine it's just awefully hard to capture it's magic. I had hoped for some rain there but got only clear blue skies. What made this even worse was the fog at the coast. We were staying in La Push since I wanted to shoot the awesome seascapes of the olympic national park, especially second beach. From the morning of day two fog rolled in and had the whole coast there in it's grasp.

I was fooled twice by the thick cloud cover and headed to the Hoh just to arrive there for the sun to blast all fog and clouds away, leaving only clear blue skies and harsh direct light. This photo I took in the 5-10 Minutes of shade we had there. I used some condensation technique on the polarizer to further emphasize the dreamy look of that place. Soon after the sun ruined all further photography.

If you are ever at the olympic peninsula and want to shoot the hoh make sure to go there early in the morning. Don't get fooled by fog or clouds at the coast, this all changes very fast further inland.

Hope you like it anyway :-)

cheers