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Archive For The “rain forest” Category

Fog on a Kitimat mountaintop

Fog on a Kitimat mountaintop. (Robin Rowland)

October 14, 2017 Robin Rowland
Alpha 77, black and white, boreal, fog, Photoblog, rain forest, summitBlack-and-white , British Columbia , fog , forest , Kitimat , trees , Weather

Devil’s club and skunk cabbage

Devil's club  (Oplopanx horridus)

Devil’s club (Oplopanx horridus) (Robin Rowland)

There’s beauty in the forests of the Kitimat Valley, even if you’re a plant with the Latin name horridus. It’s also called the Devil’s Club and has very nasty spines on both the stem and the leaves. It’s related to the ginseng family and was used by coastal First Nations as a medicine for arthritis and dozens of other ailments.

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The other appropriately ill-named plant that is common in wetter areas is the skunk cabbage (Lysichiton Americanum) because it stinks. Here the skunk cabbage is pictured alongside the Devil’s Club near Minette Bay.(Robin Rowland)
Found frequently in swampy, boggy areas and on stream beds. First Nations used it as “wax paper” to line baskets and steaming pits. Can be eaten if steamed or roasted–but only in early spring in time of famine.

April 29, 2016 Robin Rowland
black and white, boreal, forest, Kitimat, landscape, nature, rain forest, springBritish Columbia , Devil's Club , Kitimat , landscape , skunk cabbage , spring

Horsetails emerging…as they have for millions of years

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Young horsetails (Equiseteum arvense) emerging in the late spring evoke a primeval world during my morning walk in Kitimat. (Robin Rowland)

April 9, 2016 Robin Rowland
forest, Kitimat, Photoblog, Photography, rain forest, springbacklight , horsetail

Hanging moss on a late afternoon in November

Hanging moss on a late afternoon in November

setting sun through moss

Late on an early November afternoon, the sun, low in the sky, shines through moss hanging from trees in a wooded area near my home in Kitimat, BC, November 9, 2014. (Robin Rowland)

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Fall Sunday in Kitimat

After almost two months of steady rain (from late September to early November) the jet stream has moved east, for now, bringing the “polar vortex” to central and eastern North America, and clear skies and the sun (finally) to the British Columbia coast. Taken about about 20 minutes after the shot above. (Robin Rowland)

November 10, 2014 Robin Rowland
BC, fall, forest, Kitimat, landscape, nature, rain forest, sunBritish Columbia , fall colours , Kitimat , landscape , moss , photoblog

Douglas Channel, near Bish Creek, on a stormy Sunday afternoon

Douglas Channel, near Bish Creek, on a stormy Sunday afternoon

Dpiuglas Channel near Bish Creek

Bish Creek, on the west side of Douglas Channel, south of Kitimat and near the proposed Chevron Kitimat LNG terminal site, photographed on a stormy Sunday afternoon, October 5, 2014.

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October 13, 2014 Robin Rowland
BC, black and white, Douglas Channel, ocean, rain, rain forestBish Creek , Black-and-white , Douglas Channel , Kitimat , landscape , seascape

Old cedar stump in black and white

Old cedar stump in black and white

Old stump in black and white

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A little experimentation with black and white here. Three versions of the image blended together, a standard black and white conversion, with two versions from Perfect Effects 8, mostly selenium but also a smidgen of high key.

July 29, 2014 Robin Rowland
BC, black and white, forest, Kitimat, landscape, nature, Northwest photo tips, Photoblog, Photography, rain forestBlack-and-white , blending , British Columbia , ferns , forest , Kitimat , landscape , photoblog , Photoshop , selenium , stump

Sunset and quarter moon over Douglas Channel, August 13, 2013

Sunset and quarter moon over Douglas Channel, August 13, 2013

Another gorgeous evening in Kitimat, August 13, sun set lit clouds and the quarter moon setting over Douglas Channel.

 

Quarter moon over Douglas Channel Kitimat

Sunset and quarter moon setting over Douglas Channel, Kitimat, Aug. 13, 2013. (Robin Rowland)

 Forest and Kitimat harbour,

Telephoto (200 mm) view of the forest and Kitimat harbour, Aug. 13, 2013. (Robin Rowland)

Kitimat harbour

Another telephoto (200 mm) view of the forest and Kitimat harbour, Aug. 13, 2013. (Robin Rowland)

August 14, 2013 Robin Rowland
Douglas Channel, Kitimat, Photoblog, rain forest, service, sky, sunsetBritish Columbia , clouds , Douglas Channel , Kitimat , Kitimat British Columbia , landscape , ocean , sunset , telephoto
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