The Hoh

Hoh.

What an odd name, if you ask me. It is the name of a temperate rainforest in the U.S., and also one of the largest. Between the park boundary and the Pacific Ocean, nearly all of the forest has been logged within the last century. Which I find sad. I haven't been to the Hoh in years. It is a beautiful land full of every shade of green you can think of, and I mean every shade.

I had to come up with a project to do for one of my classes here at NCAD, to help my portfolio to graduate. I have known about the logging issues for awhile now. My goal as a photographer is to represent the natural beauty of the world. I want to be able to show people what they are missing out on, because of how us humans treat the land we live on. Yes, I understand we need resources to live a certain type of life. I don't agree to people who log and don't replant. It really bugs me. That is why my project is to photograph the land that has been logged and not taken care of and compare it to photographs I take of the areas the Hoh left to grow in it's old ways. I am hoping that one day a project like this can be published so more people can be aware of the damage we are doing.

I saw a quote today as sad as it is to read as a human, I feel a lot of times it's true and that is "man is nature's sole mistake " by W.S Gilbert. It's not like we are a total mistake. I mean, without us there would be a big difference in the world. Maybe another animal would be over populating the world, or maybe a planet life would be sucking the life out of it. What I am trying to say, I guess, is that too much of one species is bad and there are too many of us. So maybe it's not that we are a mistake, but more that it's we have gotten too far along in our ways, with technology and our way of living. Like other animals, we use to be much more connected to the earth and other animals but into today, people live in their own world. I believe this stops a lot of people from looking around to see the real issues in life and no your phone breaking isn't a real issue. I mean this is all an opinion. I am just sad for the other living things that live on this planet that you take for granite every day.

The Hoh Rainforest, by Heather Wallace 2012c