We are having some beautiful clear, warm (for January), winter weather. What a surprise. Our weather this time of year is either cloudy and raining, or clear and cold. It’s almost springlike… I’ll take it!
Sunset in Port Townsend
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.
Siberian Iris
I took these this week in my garden. I have had this little bunch of Siberian Iris since we bought the house, but this was the first year that I have pruned back the old vegetation in the fall. In past years I had some blooms in January, but I’m getting lots more blooms and earlier. Not sure if it is the pruning or not, but the weather hasn’t been particularly unusual this fall. We’ll see … if I remember to prune in October next fall.
The above image was isolated using an AI mask in Adobe Lightroom Classic.
