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.
When the north wind blows…
Category Archives: Puget Sound
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.
Local trees in summer
This was taken yesterday at Fern Cove Nature Preserve on Vashon Island in Puget Sound. A typical forest for the shores of the Puget Sound: mostly the brighter green trees are alder with a few big leaf maples. The evergreens are a mix of Douglas fir, hemlock and western red cedar.
These trees help to keep us cool. One of the factors heating up our area is cutting down the forest and replacing it with grass and pavement. When I was a child (a long time ago) we never saw temps in the 90s (degrees Fahrenheit), let alone days over 100.
Elegance in the tree
Back at sea level…or just one tree up from it.
High tide at sunset
It’s been crazy hot here. But the water is cold, and wading at sunset makes you feel like the world isn’t so bad…
I played with using some of the effects available in the GIMP and the G’mic plug in for it (I think you can use G’mic as a plug-in for other programs as well).
For Jez’s Water, water everywhere and the Lens Artists Challenge: one photo two ways.
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