This is the Marine Science Center at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. The exposure range was extreme enough that it burned out the area in the upper right, but it seemed not to distract from the image too much. The point of land in the middle distance (it’s hard to see the far distance) is Point Hudson.
This is the lighthouse at Point Wilson in For Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. I had to walk around a bit to get the ‘bow coming down close to the lighthouse, and didn’t notice the flock of birds (too far away for me to identify) until I was reviewing the image at home. The sunlight brightening up the lighthouse was particularly nice.
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 Dosewallips Road access to Olympic National Park has been washed out for close to 20 years now … they are still planning on re-routing the access road into the Dosewallips Flats area. Sometime. In the meantime, it’s a great hike, early spring through late autumn. This was October 7th. We hiked in 2.5 miles and back out. The dog was tired. Dog Tired.
The Larry Scott Trail is a rails-to-trails project that runs south of Port Townsend, WA. It is intended to be a section of the Olympic Discovery Trail, running from Port Townsend across the northern Olympic Peninsula to the Pacific. Some of the folks along the trail decorate this fence post with flowers from their yard. It’s a very nice thing to do.