I don’t know what the botanical names are for these algal growths… my degree was in geology and biology or botany weren’t required. But they make great patterns along the edge of this marshy area.
This was taken at Fort Flagler State Park on Marrowstone Island, SE of Port Townsend.
I like the vantage point that this location provides. It is looking almost straight down onto some trees that are growing on the top of the ‘dunes’ along this section of beach. An unusual viewpoint can help make a photo more interesting.
I have taken photos of the trees casting shadows on this building before, but this one shows nice branching that the others lacked. This is one of the building that is still in use on the grounds of Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend.
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.
The top photo shows the Point Wilson Lighthouse and Admiralty Inlet into Puget Sound. The clouds are hiding Mt Baker in the Cascades. The lower photo shows the ramp that was used for moving a searchlight out to the edge of the bluff to watch for enemy ships (pre-WWI). Both were taken from Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend.
While these are taken with my Nikon FM3a on Tri-X film (and processed in a professional lab), I get scans back from the lab that I work on in Lightroom on my computer. I liked the treatment here of having large areas of solid black … and the interesting silhouettes.
