Quinault Rainforest

After another long break from posting on the blog we return to where we left off. After I left New York I traveled to Seattle and went on a road trip through Washington and Oregon. My first stop was the Quinault Rainforest.

35mm 1/80sec, f/4, ISO 1000

It is an amazing place, especially if you don't have much time for hiking the trails around it. You can just drive your car and park it every few miles along the road and discover waterfalls, creeks, huge threes and moss everywhere.

35mm 2sec, f/16, ISO 200

I used my little joby tripod to take the long exposures. I would have preferred my old Benro tripod, but I was happy to be travelling light.

35mm 1/80sec, f/4, ISO 1600

Visiting Quinault was easily one of my best memories from the trip and it proved to be a nice test for the Fuji x100s. Low light hand held shots, macro and long exposures were all there.

35mm 2.5sec, f/16, ISO 250

You can actually do a loop around the lake in search of interesting spots, sadly the road changes from asphalt to gravel halfway through which is not as enjoyable.

Back to NYC part 2

   No trip to New York is complete without visiting Grand Central Station. It's like no other train station that I have ever been to. One of the reasons for that is that half of the people that are there, have no intention of boarding a train. They are there, like me, for another reason...to take pictures of the station itself and the busy traffic of people going in all directions.

35mm 1/30s, f/4, ISO 1250

Carrying a small tripod has advantages, but here I found it difficult to use because it is so short, the only way was to lay on the floor. Which turned out to be a sight for most people in the station, some guy rolling around on the floor trying to take pictures..

35mm 1/100s, f/4, ISO 2000

This is where the Fuji x100s excels - Shooting with shutter speed under 1/30s , where most DSLRs will have a hard time.

35mm 1/8s, f/5,6, ISO 1250

  When you go outside you see buildings everywhere. Grand Central Stations is surrounded by all kinds of glass and concrete facades. I am glad it's still there, unlike the sad fate that befell the old Penn Station...

35mm 1/100s, f/5.6, ISO 640

To be continued....