Tag Archives: sunset

High tide at sunset

June 29, 2021 XingfuMama 8 Comments

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…

Puget Sound shoreline at high tide...and golden hour.

The sun setting over the Kitsap Peninsula, viewed from Vashon Island in Puget Sound.

Silhouetted of geese on waves refelcting the gold of the setting sun.

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).

The Water pixels filter is found in the Filters menu: Filters>Artistic>Water pixels

The simple noise canvas filter is in the Artistic set of filters.

This uses the "dream smoothing filter found in the Atristic set of G'mic filters.

For Jez’s Water, water everywhere and the Lens Artists Challenge: one photo two ways.

Puget Sound

Setting sun

Image April 20, 2021 XingfuMama 6 Comments

Sunset on Puget Sound from Vashon Island. — A bright end to a bright day.

Peek-a-boo view of the sun setting over Colvos Passage on Puget Sound and the Kitsap Peninsula.

For Becky of Winchester’s Bright Squares.

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What’s it going to be?

March 8, 2021 XingfuMama 2 Comments

Friday night’s sky was interesting:

The weather report for the weekend was “scattered rain”. It sounds so tame compared to the dramatic skies we saw:

Late morning on Sunday. This was typical of the skies we saw this weekend.

For Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky.

Puget Sound

Sky and water

February 9, 2021 XingfuMama 6 Comments

I’m a fan of the beach at sunset…even on a chilly winter evening.

The sky and sea merge at the end of the day.

For Jez Braithwaite’s Water, Water Everywhere and Fan of....

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Lit up

January 4, 2021 XingfuMama 7 Comments

For Becky of Winchester’s Square Up Challenge.

Snapshots from a Happy Life

Sunday’s sky

Image December 28, 2020 XingfuMama 6 Comments

Rainy morning sky and raindrops on Nandina berries. — Rainy, gray morning.

Lightening of the clouds. — Mid-day: thinning clouds.

Behind the clouds the midday sun looks more like a full moon. — But not too thin. Could that be the sun? Looks more like a full moon.

For Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky.

Puget Sound

Brief cloud break

December 13, 2020 XingfuMama 2 Comments

A cloud break near sunset over Colvos Passage on Puget Sound. — Cloud break over Puget Sound.

This is the sky just before sunset (by sunset the clouds had closed in again) I wasn’t sure I’d get a sky photo this weekend since for much of the day the sky was on the ground (misty rain with low visibility). But the clouds cracked briefly.

One evening this past week we had another cloud break sunset:

For Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky.

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The wind changed yesterday

November 8, 2020 XingfuMama 27 Comments

The cold north wind began in the middle of the day yesterday, to chase the clouds away. We awoke to a cold clear morning.

A fall scene with a sunburst coming through red and orange foliage. — The morning after.

Reminded me of the Lord of the Rings.

In Seattle the north wind usually brings clear weather, in the winter it can be very cold, since the wind is coming from Alaska and Canada. A long time ago I wrote this description of how I loved the cold, very clean north wind when I was a child: Winter wind from the north.

For Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky #5. And the Lens Artists Challenge this week: the sun will come out tomorrow.