This is one of the trails (and maintenance roads) at Fort Worden State Park here in Port Townsend. It is only a mile or two from my house, but the weather changes rapidly across the area – here on a peninsula sticking out into salt water (Admiralty Inlet on Puget Sound). At home there was still an inch of icy snow on the street (a cul-de-sac … so not much traffic).
I selected the blacktop of the service road using a color picker in Lightroom and darkened it until its detail disappeared. The willow leafs that were left had made an interesting pattern that had caught my eye: the processing made them stand out even more as an abstract pattern.
As a photographer, I wished that I had been able to isolate the red rose hips of these Sitka rode bushes … but it was nice to have a sunny day, and if it meant that I had to deal with sunlight on background, I couldn’t complain too much.
I was out at Fort Worden State Park shooting a roll of film (testing out a new-to-me camera) when I saw this group of bike riders silhouetted against the sky. I liked the two patches of sunlight on the grassy hill leading up to the riders. They came down the hill and rode up the road past me … and I took another photo of them riding away. The image shows a black top service road covered with forest litter after a particularly windy night.
Kodak Portra 400, converted to black and white in Lightroom.
Late fall has the madrone around Fort Worden losing their bark (well, they are losing something all year round, it seems). It adds some variation in the colors.
Images shot on Kodak Portra 400 with a Nikon F100.