Yesterday was a day between storms.
For Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky and Jez Braithwaite’s Water, water everywhere.
Saturday’s skies
Category Archives: Puget Sound
Up, up and away: Big Blue in Flight
Great Blue Herons aren’t rare around here, and at least three can be seen regularly fishing as the tide changes at Fern Cove.
I caught a few decent pictures of “Big Blue” in flight while I was over at my dad’s last week. They are very graceful birds, and very efficient fishers.
Mid-week monochrome skies
Mid-week monochrome seems like a perfect description of today’s skies. I took a couple of pictures while we were getting on the ferry and was curious to see how much difference switching to black and white would make
Then I played with a more elaborate black and treatment:
Looking in another direction.
A more dramatic treatment using the Nik Silver Effects pro
Since we had thunderstorms and a lot of rain the more dramatic black and white seem to suit the feel of the day. But my eyes did not deceive me: there isn’t a whole lot of difference between the color image and one that is simply desaturated.
A little later we got a little more light (and the power came back on!).
When the north wind blows…
We get clear skies.
In the winter they are cold and clear, in the summer they are our dog days of summer, just right for a day on the beach.
For Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky and Jez Braithwaithe’s Water, Water Everywhere.
May you live under interesting skies
Today’s skies were a study of light and shadows.
Unstitchable skies
The last photos on my card for March are a sequence of the interesting skies we had yesterday evening. A weather front was moving in.
I was hoping to stitch them into a panarama, but I didn’t have my monopod and the angles and scales are a little too wonky to pull it off.
For Bushboy’s Last on Card: March and Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky.
Low contrast sky
Somewhere between clear blue and “rain, heavy at times”.
This view of the sky above the Olympic Mountains from Fauntleroy Ferry Dock is from Saturday, the day when the high pressure front that gave us blue skies (and cold temps) last week gave way to more seasonal rain, at least it isn’t so cold, but, boy, is it wet right now.
Who needs words?
The gray is back today
It’s too dark to take decent photos outside today. But I want to share yesterday’s golden hour and sunset. The clouds were rather unusual; they had a cool texture that caught the light in interesting ways.
A brilliant beginning
To the weekend sky.
XingfuMama 