The first offering for the new year is an old image, but one I’ve always liked for it’s silvan mood and intricacy, very “northwesty”. I used to do solitary carefree road trips in a crappy old gas guzzler, with all my photography and camping gear. This was 1982, during a trip that included parts of the Oregon Coast, interior, and the Redwoods in Northern CA. It was off season, cold, and wet. Silver Falls State Park in Oregon is fairly popular due to the nice trails through a series of beautiful waterfalls. I was literally alone there, and the weather was not conducive to hiking with camera gear and attempting to photograph in the rainy woods, I made no images of waterfalls. But when this opened up before me I stopped to work, now here is a falls, of silver. I was under a poncho, and a large garbage bag was over the camera, it was raining as evidenced my the fogginess of the light with some distance back into the woods. I have one or two silver prints somewhere, made back then, on Portriga. Tech stuff- a 4×5 negative, drum scanned.
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