Hurricane Ridge
Hurricane Ridge, in Washington State's Olympic National Park, gets its name from the intense winds and snowfall that batter it more or less all the year round. On my trip there, I saw none of that; instead, the middle layer of the drive up was wreathed in a combination of cloud and fog, glorious to experience, but hard to photograph. This chap, however, photographed near the visitors center at the top, was absolutely nonchalant about the humans buzzing around him and sauntered around the grounds unbothered. I used a tight focus shot to show him looking across the Cascades -- his mountains -- as one might pause before deciding in which direction to set off in next.