ColorChallenge, Green Thursday:
“Green Effervescence”
In the foreground, one can contemplate on the prominent lush vivid greens of our drenched Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia, with young battered spruce trees adorned of its usual attire of thick mosses and lichens shooting for the sun. Through the flailing mist running about the base of “Toe Hill” cliff, the basalt face wear its creeping hair-like vegetation too as the sun is peeking with its soft pink and rainbow colours! The chromatic aberration is far from being an unintended phenomena: In this case, I intended to bring a little green-light being playing the role, maybe, of a fairy rising to the occasion…
At the very base of the cliff, protected both by the evergreen front of Krummholz and the 125 meter high wall, a row of healthy white-pinkish flowers seemingly grow with a calm composure in its shelter. Above and to their left, the dark tinges of Salal Berrie bushes make a solid effort at climbing this eroded volcanic plug for which one half has apparently been left behind on its course as this mythical Haida rock-spirit ran away from its other half, his twin brother “Tow”, who stayed in its original location about a hundred kilometre away…
The unusual clear skies above made the light shining through creating diamonds on the droplets and accentuating the light effect, especially on the trees, grasses, sedges and moss offering a great example of green diversity. Though that summer had hardly any rain and bringing the drought level to a category 4, the thick fog pushed against the shore condensed on the branches forming potholes and wet cushy moss at their base!