These were taken at Fort Worden State Park and show some of the relics left over from when it was more a Fort than a State Park. Taken with a Nikon FM3a on Kodak Tri-X film.
Relics of the Past
Wonderful Trees
Above is one of my favorite trees. It’s a madrone that is at Fort Worden State Park (one of my favorite locations for photography). I really like this tree for its symmetry and fully formed shape. So many madrone have non-symmetrical shapes due to their neighbors blocking light. This one has been able to grown in an open area for years and years.
Below is a magnificent Douglas Fir that is along the Ira Spring Wetlands trail in the Bogachiel Rainforest, just outside the Olympic National Park. You can barely see the opening into the interior of the trunk … too small for an adult, but I’m sure small kids and animals frequent the small area. I was sorry that the opening was such that I couldn’t get a good view of it.
Tree Silhouettes (Color)
These are images of tree silhouettes that were taken at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA. The image below looks a lot like a black and white image, but if you look closely, you’ll see some color in the trunk of the madrone. That’s what happens when you are shooting with the camera exposing for large areas of sky. I was going to convert it to black and white, but decided I liked the effect of the faint color.
In addition, these images were taken with a digital camera, not on film as with my previous post.
Tree Silhouettes (Black and White)
These images were all taken at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA. In addition, they were all taken with a Nikon FM3a on Kodak Tri-X black and white film. I have taken a number of photos of the poplars shown above, but typically they were taken of their shadows. The bottom photo is a little different, showing some branches with a background of the Admiralty Inlet area (where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound with Whidbey Island in the background). There are a couple of viewing locations along the top of the bluff that look out through the trees to the water.
Layered Ocean View
I was attracted to the clouds along the horizon, but the different layers of patterns in the sand made a very interesting foreground. Many horizontal layers … This is a view from Kalaloch on the beach section of the Olympic National Park.