21 Jun 17	During the past couple of weeks I've been shooting individual foxglove flowers as I've found them here and there, including in our yard. Yesterday as we were completing our touring of the area with our good friend from VA we happen to pass a couple of hillsides that were literally covered with foxglove. This was to the best of my (failing) memory the largest concentrations of the flower I've ever seen. So I decided to take a few shots of the stuff to see what I might be able to do with it. Several of them came out acceptable and today's submission is one of them. Although the day started out nice, and in fact gave us the best viewing of Puget Sound from Mt Walker we've experienced to date, as the day progressed the weather moved in and by this morning we were for the most part socked in. At the time we encountered the foxglove yesterday the skies were turning a dull gray, and for the most part looking very boorish, so I had to help the sky in this composition a wee bit. During the last couple of months several areas very near to us have been clear cut, something I really hate to see happening, but in the case of this clear cut area and the other close by, the foxglove have done a delightful job of hiding the ugliness for at least a few weeks. Plus, by getting down low and letting the plants on a mound of dirt take center stage, I was able to hide most of the carnage. And no, I'm not against harvesting trees for lumber, just find the clear cut approach not only ugly but potentially destructive with all the plant life holding the soil removed. There are much better ways.

I used selective color to grab the white of the sky area, converted that to a sky blue, and brushed in the clouds reducing their opacity to get the proper blend for the light in the sky. Otherwise, this is straight from the camera. Nikon D500; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 1000; 1/320 sec @ f /11.