Mt St Helens WA Hoffstadt Creek (#1460)

Heading to a point to look at the Mt St Helens lava mudflows along Hoffstadt creek I, fortunately, saw some odd movement near the ground. Someone in front of me had walked by without noticing it at all, and the way it was nesting I barely saw it -- it became far more obvious in the time it took me to get the camera ready. While I don’t believe in magically prescient events, this incident of troubles with separating depth and field turned out to be a model for much of my trip out to the Mt St Helens area. A trip where you had to appreciate the subtle hints of power that you could see, without actually seeing the source of that power.