Or . . . a close encounter of the third kind. Let’s just go with the former rather than the latter.
I am no photographer. The pictures that I post are merely illustrations for articles from my gardening column, and other articles. This picture just happened to make itself available while I was getting the first of the six pictures of the earlier ‘Six on Saturday’ post. The location is nothing special. It is not really out in the forest like it seems to be. A lodge building of six suites is directly to the left. A big ‘housekeeping’ building is to the right. There is a road in the background above, as well as below, from where the picture was taken.
Even the flora in uninteresting. The most prominent straight trunk in the middle is that of a young Douglas fir. The slightly leaning trunk with upward reaching branches to the right is some sort of cypress. There are a few nice small coast live oaks to the left. Most of the other trees to the right are black locusts that I really should cut down. The small shoots in the foreground are watersprounts from black oak saplings that were already cut down. There are some California bay trees in there somewhere, probably off in the background to the very far left.
The deteriorated colony of oak root rot fungus, Armillaria mellea, that was described too graphically in the earlier post was located in the foreground of the lodge building to the left. https://tonytomeo.com/2018/12/02/the-humongous-fungus-among-us/ . There was not much left of it then, so there would be even less now. . . fortunately.
Well, isn’t this way more information than necessary? I should have left this (too artistic for my ability) picture with just the title.
Tony Tomeo 
That is a good shot. I’ve tried to take those shafts of light and they usually do not turn out that well.
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Weirdly, I never tried before. I would not have believed that I could have gotten a picture of it.
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I disagree that you’re not a photographer. You photos are always good, and you sure had a good eye to get this shot. That’s beautiful.
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Thank you, but I just take pictures as illustrations. They are more technical images. Photographers get to be more artistic.
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It’s a great shot! While the flora might not be as interesting as elsewhere, the shot beautifully captures light and texture–as a good photo should. Happy 2019 to you–looking forward to more great information.
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Thank you. I enjoyed showing it off, particularly since I know how unimpressive the setting really is.
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Gorgeous shot. But I would rather just think of it as a magical woodland glade. I don’t want to imagine buildings and roads.
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Well, it is that too. I described only the unseen surroundings. It is a magical woodland glade as well.
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A lot of good photography is about seizing the moment, rather than trying to set something up to be deliberately artistic. It’s a great photo, very atmospheric.
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Thank you. It did all the work.
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Beams of sunlight, dew covered grass, and bejeweled spiderwebs festooning the bare growth. Best photo yet…
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Thank you. The picture made itself up.
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Sometimes the timing is right and things come our way with little effort required. As you said, the picture made itself up. The more someone is out there in nature, the more chances there are for that to happen.
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Well, I work and live out in it most of the time. I tend to ignore much of it.
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Goodness; this really complicates a simple and potentially artistic picture.
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