Tag: Olympia

Double Rainbow

Double Rainbow – Olympia, Washington

I took this image before stitching together images to create panoramas was ‘click a button’ easy. In those days getting a full rainbow in a single image required wide angle lenses. A 21mm lens (on a 35mm film camera or equivalent digital camera) would capture the whole of a single rainbow. This was taken with a 14mm lens to try and get as much of the double as possible (there has been some cropping of the image on the edges). A wider lens tends to have a strong fisheye effect or at least significant distortion along the edges. In this case, the left end of the double is hidden by trees and the right end is barely visible due to brightness of the sky.

I took this image from the parking lot of an apartment building in Olympia, Washington, across a vacant lot that was going to be part of the complex (or at least, that was the plan).

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Crepuscular Rays (Going Down)

Crepuscular Rays (Going Down) 1

While many crepuscular rays show the rays coming up from the horizon, you can often see examples of rays coming down through holes in cloud cover. Especially with the panoramic image at the bottom, clicking on it to get an expanded view is quite helpful. All images are from in or around Olympia, Washington. The top and bottom images are from the same day … around midday in late December.

Crepuscular Rays (Going Down) 2
Crepuscular Rays (Going Down) 3
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Woodard Bay

Looking Southwest Down Woodard Bay from Weyer Point

This is a view of Woodard Bay, an inlet off of Henderson Inlet (an inlet of Puget Sound) northeast of Olympia. If you look closely (clicking on the image to expand it will help here), you can see the bridge where Woodard Bay Road crosses the inlet. This is high tide. When the tide is out, there isn’t anything except mud from bank to bank … except for the little bit of water from Woodard Creek.

Below is a view of the inside of the canoe, showing the paddle and baskets of oysters and blueberries, and a kneeling mat.

Dugout Canoe Interior and Woodard Bay
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Loading Logs for Export

Loading Logs for Export

This is the south end of Budd Bay, the inlet of Puget Sound that comes down into downtown Olympia, Washington. There is pretty limited ship traffic down this far, but one of the few regular uses is for loading logs onto ships for export. The negative side of this is the stream of log trucks bringing loads of logs right through the middle of downtown. Between where I was standing and the log ship you can see the two tugboats that are stationed in Olympia when there is shipping traffic.

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