Kalaloch is one of the easiest Olympic National Park beaches to access. It’s a long drive, but it’s just a short walk from highway 101. This is about low tide … perfect for beach walking. At least between streams … the stream here is Kalaloch Creek and it was running pretty deep and we opted not to get our feet wet in the icy cold water, but turned and walked the other direction.
These two images are taken just a few minutes apart. The top one from the top of the bank at Kalaloch, just as I was heading down to the beach. The one below was taken from the beach looking across the water to see the waves being blown by the wind. Not much changing of the color tones in post-processing… just a difference in the shooting angle and a little closer to sunset. Kalaloch is one of the Olympic National Park beaches.
Point Wilson is located in Port Townsend within the boundaries of Fort Worden State Park and sits on the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula, where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound, an area also known as Admiralty Inlet. The buildings are in need of repair … badly needed paint and the repair of other damage due to years in the weather. Below is a shot just a few feet away, on the beach, showing a lean-to that has also fallen into disrepair. No one is collecting money for the repair of the lean-to.
These shots were taken with my Pentax 643N using Portra 400 film.
These are both shots taken from the same spot on the beach at Fort Worden State Park. I just turned 90 degrees and faced south for the second shot. I was shooting Portra 400 film with my Pentax 645N. With the shot below, I exposed for the clouds and sky and the foreground was completely in shadow. I tried to ‘recover’ the details in the shadows, but it quickly became full of speckled grains … and we aren’t talking sand grains. With a digital camera, the shot below could easily have been adjusted to show normal looking details in the shadows. The technology we have these days is wonderful.
This is along the shoreline section of Olympic National Park. The sunsets aren’t always this dramatic, sometimes they are just gray and drizzly. But when it stops raining, it can be stunning.