Moss on Trees
Most of the year is very damp in the Pacific Northwest. Forget the old adage that moss grows on the north side of a tree...
The moss is growing on the south side of the tree above—when it is not completely encircling branches. Don’t use moss to tell directions around Settle. The best way to find south is to wait until summer and look for the sun.
This tree is deep inside a narrow gorge along South Prairie Creek. There is plenty of moisture and not a lot of sun. We are far enough north that the sun doesn’t even make it very high at noon. Lots of moist shade for moss to grow in.
This photo is a panorama made up of three mostly overlapping shot on my iPhone. I combined the panorama in Affinity Pro. The photo just does not look like a phone photo; it’s got rich color and fine detail.
I took a shot of the river with the iPhone using an app called Spectre, which does an interesting form of time-lapse. The portions of the shot that are nearly still are sharp, and the parts that change (e.g., flowing water) are smoothed using multiple exposures.
The shot is straight out of the phone with some minor tweaking in Apple Photos. (Spectre outputs JPG images, not RAW.)
Here’s a shot of some moss on the bridge’s side barrier: