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Mount Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest, WA, USA

October 2010

Mount Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest, WA, USA

Canon 5D MkII & EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM, 0.3s f/9.5 ISO400 @78mm

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The rainforests of the Pacific Northwest are a wonderful place to hike because of their exuberant vegetation, rich wildlife, huge old growth trees, and soft well constructed trails. Lots of plants and lots of water means lots of bugs, and hence lots of food for lots of spiders to feed on them by building lots of spider webs. So whoever gets up early and is the first to walk a trail on any given day, and that is usually me, more often than not finds himself breaking through one spider web after another clearing the route for all the lucky guys that will follow. Sometimes you are fortunate spotting them and can remove them with your hands and others not so much and you do it with your face, always worrying if the web owner has decided to take a ride with you or not.

On this particular day there had been significant rainfall the night before, so many leaves had fallen from the trees to be trapped by the spider webs instead of reaching the ground. At first sight they looked like if they were floating on the air with nothing holding them there. The complete lack of wind made it possible to capture this, even with the long exposures required by the very low light available in the early morning inside the forest.

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