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…
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Lowest low
Due to the lunar nodal cycle we had the lowest low tide in 13 years yesterday. We spent the day over at my Dad’s. He lives on Vashon Island. For fun I took a series of photos from about the same vantage point to show the dramatic difference over the course of about twelve hours starting about 6 in the morning.
Clearly the weather wasn’t much: the sky was pretty much flat gray.
Water, water everywhere…
Narada Falls
Usually we go to the mountain a bit later in the year, after most of the snow melt, so we’ve never seen Narada Falls so vigorous. This year the snow melt was accelerated by the record breaking hot weather in our area. The water really was everywhere, even in the air! It was hard to photograph the falls this year without getting my lens covered with water.
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.
Between showers
A chance ray of sunlight lit this rose, making it pop from the surroundings.
Chiaroscuro
I continue my exploration of chiaroscuro.
This is a Renaissance painting using chiaroscuro:
Directional light
I took these photos yesterday between rain showers. One typical feature of chiaroscuro is the light coming from a specific direction. In this case the sky was a mix of dark clouds and blue, when the sun hit a break in the clouds it came between some nearby trees.
Detail in the bright areas
Another feature is that the brightly lit subjects have a lot of detail. Since I wanted detail in the highlights I chose what some would consider an under exposure (I used the P mode and set the exposure compensation to -0.3) and made sure the depth of field was great enough to get the whole flower. The settings were F 4.0, 1/320s and ISO 100 the focal length was 8.8 mm (24 mm 35 mm equivalent).
High contrast between the lit subject and the dark surroundings (a.k.a., tenebrism)
I used Raw Therapee to darken the shadows without loosing detail in the highlights.
Moving the photo into the GIMP, I made a duplicate layer of the image, switched the duplicate to multiply blend mode, adjusted its opacity then used a tone curve on the resulting image to fine tune the contrast.
For Jez’s Water, Water Everywhere and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Watery reflections
Fern Cove Preserve on Vashon Island in Puget Sound. For Jez’s Water Water Everywhere.
Tiny suncatcher
From this morning’s dog walk, for Becky of Winchester’s Bright Squares and Jez Braithwaite’s Water, Water Everywhere.
Sky and water
I’m a fan of the beach at sunset…even on a chilly winter evening.
For Jez Braithwaite’s Water, Water Everywhere and Fan of....
The creek is full
Every year the winter rains and high tides reform the tide flats near Shinglemill creek. Today was a low enough tide to walk the beach, without rain, but the creek is still full and running fast and deep. My little dogs were intimidated and couldn’t get across, but they kept trying.
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