more Seattle: Bloedel Reserve

After the ferry ride described below, we arrived on Bainbridge Island and made our way to the Bloedel Reserve. The Reserve was established (ironically?) by a former lumber operation owner, and designed by venerable landscape architect Richard Haag.

My experience of the reserve is of the almost overwhelming richness of textures of the Northwest forest. Bark, moss, ferns, needles, decomposing stumps, roots... It is an extremely involving experience of observing details and being in awe by the whole. This time, I decided to focus on photographing "small things," since it seemed impossible to capture the larger spaces.





my host Katie in the Aspen Grove