Port Townsend (where I live) is at the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound… and at the top of what is referred to as the Admiralty Inlet area.
This image shows the area where the two bodies of water meet. In the distance is Whidbey Island and above it Mt Baker, the northern-most of the stratovolcanoes of the Washington Cascades. Tidal currents in the area can reach 6 knots. (Canoes and kayaks beware!)
Virga is rain that evaporates before hitting the ground. This photo was taken with my iPhone looking across Puget Sound from Marrowstone Island looking east across to Whidbey Island.
I was lucky that the rainbow stuck around until I could get to the beach. The clouds were great and a ship was encircled by the ‘bow. I’m not sure what caused the sunshine patterning to the right side of the ‘bow, but I liked that it showed up in the final image. This was a series of images that I assembled in Lightroom.
The Hawaiian Chieftain has it’s home port in Kamakahonu, but is in Port Townsend, available for day cruises. I thought it was a nice little boat, worth taking photos of. (no, I haven’t had a ride aboard)
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.
