I hope that during the holiday season you have time to spend with friends and family and that you do something together … like go for a walk, have a meal, or just sit and talk. I don’t know these people … I just really liked the shadows they threw towards me.
An ocean beach is a great place to see clouds. This is the Pacific Ocean from Kalaloch. A lot of the pacific beaches in Washington are part of the Olympic National Park. I liked the rain squalls visible below the clouds. You can also see several people at the waterline. This is good razor clam digging during the typical short season (spring) … some of my earliest memories are of razor clam digging.
I thought this was a little unusual for a rainbow … lots of the reds and not so much (if any) blues and greens. This is looking directly east with the sun low in the western sky. There was a VERY faint double showing in the left of the sky, but it didn’t show up much in the image. This was taken with my iPhone with it set on wide angle … which created some distortion. I corrected some of that in Lightroom, but it stretched out the tree on the right margin some.
The northeast corner of the Olympic Mountains make a wonderful backdrop for the marina and the Port Townsend Paper Mill.
I took this image a few years back while hiking around the High Divide, camping in a spot just off the trail. There wasn’t much water around (1/2 mile + away), but the view made up for it. The High Divide is the most popular backpack in the Olympic National Park … these days you need to make a reservation months in advance … and even then good luck getting one of the limited number.
Below is a view south from the High Divide trail about a mile or so from the camp above. Mt Olympus is the snowy peak on the left of center, Mt Tom is the snow peak just right of center. The Hoh River valley is between the trail and those peaks.
