Ghost Forest and Emerging Ferns, Dolly Sods Wilderness

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It was a cold, damp, and foggy morning in the Dolly Sods Wilderness. The fog was sometimes so thick that it was impossible to see more than about ten feet. Less dense fog would occasionally drift through slowly to reveal more distant objects. On this unusual day the fog remained until well past noon. It gave the forest a very eerie feeling. One could imagine that nearly anything lay just beyond the most distant visible trees.

The lighter plants in the photograph foreground are newly sprouted fern fronds. Black and white processing best conveyed the morning's mood and allowed me to use the light yellow-green color of the ferns to accentuate them against the darker greens containing less yellow in the other vegetation.