Two Shots from the Same Spot

These are both shots taken from the same spot on the beach at Fort Worden State Park. I just turned 90 degrees and faced south for the second shot. I was shooting Portra 400 film with my Pentax 645N. With the shot below, I exposed for the clouds and sky and the foreground was completely in shadow. I tried to ‘recover’ the details in the shadows, but it quickly became full of speckled grains … and we aren’t talking sand grains. With a digital camera, the shot below could easily have been adjusted to show normal looking details in the shadows. The technology we have these days is wonderful.

March 8, 2025 3

The Strait meets the Sound

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!)

December 28, 2024 3

Walker in a Field

This is a section of Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. The water is the distance is the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the land in the distance is the southeast corner of Vancouver Island.

July 16, 2024 2

Tree Silhouettes (Black and White)

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.