Port Townsend has a lot of beautiful old brick buildings. They make interesting images … and so do some of the narrow passages bewteen the buildings. These are also images shot on Tri-X using a Nikon F100.
Brickwork
It all depends on which way you look…
I thought these photos were all interesting … even without the fact that they were all taken from about the same spot. (not on the same day) They are all taken from Marrowstone Island, which is just southeast of Port Townsend, WA. The body of water is Puget Sound. I like the variation in mood between these. I especially like the stormy weather shot just below that has the grass blowing into a blur.
I should add that these are all shot on film. The black and white on Tri-X and the color on Portra 400. The black and whites were shot using a Nikon F100 and the color using a Nikon F75.
Common Merganser
I know there isn’t such a thing (that I have ever heard of), but I would call this a Hairy Merganser. I mean, with a mohawk haircut like this, how could you not?
Towhees
Another of my favorite birds is the towhee. They don’t deal well with the bird feeders … seeming to prefer feeding on the ground. Fortunately, we don’t have many free-range cats in our neighborhood.
Great Horned Owls
Great Horned Owls are fairly common in the Pacific Northwest … although they can be hard to spot with their typically nocturnal ways. And they like to hide out, as below. (I was just lucky to spot that one, but it had been a nest before.)
