This is the Port Townsend waterfront at sunset in winter. The mountains in the distance are the northeast corner of the Olympics. This also shows one of the benefits of the area: the rain shadow effect you get from being downwind of the Olympics and the prevailing winds out of the southwest.
When I want to try out a ‘new’ film camera, the first thing I do is run a roll of film through it as fast as I can. Usually, I spend an hour or so down on the waterfront, shoot the roll and drop it in the mail on the way home. Lately, I tried out a Pentax 645N. This is a fairly large camera that shoots 120 film (this was Kodak Portra 400). I really enjoyed it, but found a streak on the negative (still trying to track down if it was a light leak, a scratch or an issue with the scanner at the lab). The nice thing about larger size film is you can crop a bunch off and still have decent quality… here, I cut off the left third of the image to eliminate the streak.
Photos of sunsets and sailboats are pretty common and a challenge to make unique. I thought the warm colors of this boat anchored off of the Port Townsend waterfront made this image worth sharing.
Shot on Kodak Portra 400 … this is an image that would have been noticeably more sharp with my digital camera. I like the feel to this one, though.
This gull was willing to stay still while I puttered with exposure settings. This is the Port Townsend waterfront looking south to the NE corner of the Olympic Mountains (well, with a bunch of clouds mixed in). For a wider angel view (without the gull), see below.
These shots were taken within a minute or two of each other, the difference being the direction into or away from the sun. Above shows some of the old Fort Flagler buildings (still being used for retreats and other meetings). Below shows the peaks of the central Cascades above Puget Sound, with the years first snow reflecting the pink of the sunset.
