Backlit Thimbleberry
Thimbleberry is prevalent in the Puget Sound area and in contrast to Salmonberry and Blackberry, doesn’t have thorns… The leaves are larger and turn many colors in the autumn where there’s frost… One has to ascend to higher altitudes to find it in color as the lowlands in the northwest don’t get frost till late November when most of the leaves have fallen or have turned brown from the autumn rains… In sping, Thimbleberry has a delicate white flower followed by a thimble shaped orange berry…
This entry was posted on Saturday, December 8th, 2001 at 9:40 AM. It is filed under Uncategorized and tagged with digital manipulations, digital painting, forest, mountains, plants, waterflow.
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the backdrop on this image is pretty wild .. a river of leaves ..
actually, it was pretty wild… rapids in a steep stream… it does look like a river of leaves now that you mention it… (work not completed in photoshop – one of the images I used in developing techniques for painting in photoshop – I didn’t do much more with this image as it was a digital low resolution file, too small for use other than what you see at 72dpi onscreen)
Peace