These were both taken recently… the above is one of those trees that holds onto their leaves until spring. Just to make sure that there is raking year round, I guess.
Branches and Sky
Lombardy Poplar
I recently read that the Lombardy Poplar that were planted extensively in the ’60’s and before are all male clones. Huh. Who would have thought?
I found this row of them at Fort Worden in Port Townsend … but they are spread widely. There is a long row of them along the main road into downtown PT.
Moonrise
I took this one a couple years back … I took a series of them, actually. I never posted this one, thinking it was too similar to the one I did post. But as I was going through my archive, I was struck by this one. I love the way it connects the two mountains.
I took this from Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington with a Nikon D850 and a 300mm lens with a 2x multiplier. Exposure was f/8 at 1/25 sec and ISO 100.
Mt Baker
These are both taken with telephoto lenses, so you get some of the foreshortening effect. The top image is from Dungeness Spit near Sequim, Washington. You can walk 8 miles along the spit out to the lighthouse there. You need to be aware of the tides, though, or you may end up walking on the driftwood … a lot more difficult going than walking the beach. The Point Wilson lighthouse is on the grounds of Fort Worden State Park, right at the point where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound.
Rust and Gray Paint
This is a section of rusty metal on the WWI shore batteries. I thought it was an interesting pattern. I took this with my first digital camera, an Olympus E-10 back in 2002. I’m pretty impressed that the quality is as good as it is. If you increase the zoom to 300% it falls apart and just isn’t usable. But at this size, it looks pretty good. This was taken at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, while I was visiting for the day. I was living in Olympia at the time … it was another 15 years or so before I moved here. Another reminder why I like it this much here.