Denali Park Scenes, Part Five (August 2020)
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The animal kingdom may have been reluctant to provide camera subjects in the park, but the botanical kingdom came through and provided a rich mid-August display of the vibrant colors of trees and brush. The park doesn't contain lush broad-leaf foliage, like a tropical jungle rain forest. The park, after all, is just slightly below the arctic circle, is relatively dry, and has a short growing season, and snow covers the surface seven or eight months a year. But by northern Alaskan standards, the foliage was vibrant and even lush in August, shortly before the weather would start to close in.
Even many of the rocky slopes were dressed with brush.
Dense brush provides a rich foreground.
There is some more decorative foliage, but not much. Color-saturated cones decorate the spruce.
A thin layer of mossy ground cover barely conceals the rock below. A few larger rocks break the surface.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.