Beautiful sunrise over the Lake Sutherland, WA Valley on Tuesday with snow capped Baldy Ridge and Mount Storm King. :)

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I haven't entered any photo contests in a while (and have mixed emotions about them). Well, I finally entered one last year and I'm excited to share that 4 of my photos made it as semi-finalists in the 'Nature's Best - National Parks' 2024 photo contest! And two were taken on the same day... :)

Also first snow of the season on Lake Crescent with Pyramid Peak, Olympic National Park:

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First snow of the season at Lake Sutherland, WA. We're happy to see it, but it's very late and doesn't portend good snow pack in the Olympic mountains, which means rivers will be very low in late summer, affecting water supply for Port Angeles.

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I had a lot of fun this fall photographing such a wonderful variety of mushrooms! This is a macro photo of a small group of mushrooms in the Hoh River Valley in Olympic National Park.

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Sunset over Lake Crescent and Pyramid Peak, Olympic National Park, last night:

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Number 4 of my 10 favorites for 2024 is of the beautiful fall colors at Royal Lake in the Royal Basin, Olympic National Park.

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Number 3 in my top 10 of 2024 is the iconic amanita muscaria mushroom. It was a banner year for fungus on the Olympic Peninsula, with unusual August rains leading to an explosion of mushrooms in September and October!

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Number two in my Top 10 of 2024 is the Devil's Punchbowl reflections, on Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park.

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As a retrospective, I'm sharing my top 10 favorite photos that I took in 2024, in chronological order. My first one from spring, is a tropical looking waterfall in the Hoh rainforest.

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There is beauty in frost and darkness, just as there is loveliness in light and warmth. Embrace it all this Winter Solstice!

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Had a great hike with @cismleaves.bsky.social on one of the less popular Olympic National Park trails this weekend. One of the wonderful things about this time of year, is that when the sun is out, it's always golden hour!

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There was a spectacular fall sunrise this morning over Lake Sutherland and Lake Crescent, WA!

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We finally visited this magical place in the fall - the Hoh rainforest in Olympic National Park. It's the reason we moved to the Olympic Peninsula, after visiting for the first time a decade ago.

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