On this day there was a report of a pod of Killer Whales (Orcas, as the locals refer to them), loitering in the Port Washington Narrows. There is only a ‘narrow’ passage into the bay. So I grabbed my gear and went down to the waterfront. Unfortunately the Orcas didn’t cooperate at all. But, apparently,…
This is an example of the Macro Photography technique of Focus Stacking. The method is to take precisely focused slices of a subject and stack them together in software. The reason for this is the extremely narrow DoF (Depth of Field) due to a wide open aperture and very close focus. I would surmise that…
I was out and about one June day. Visiting Scenic Beach SP and Hood Canal when I was heading back home and stopped by Old Mill Park in Silverdale. There wasn’t much going on until I saw this sailboat out on the inlet. The clouds and rocks in the foreground add a little to the…
It was just another afternoon down at the Tracyton Boat Launch. It was low tide and the birds were having dinner. This seagull found a HUGE snail or something. It could barely get the thing is it’s mouth. It managed to get about 15 feet in the air and drop the thing hoping to break…
I had been over to a prospective employer’s office in Seattle and was taking the M/V Walla Walla back to Bremerton. Of course I seized on the opportunity to update my collection of Seattle skyline photos. Even though I capture everything in color, the black and white conversions work out fairly well due to the…
As I was heading over to meet with a prospective employer on the M/V Walla Walla, I had an opportunity to grab this photo of the Space Needle and Pacific Science Center. With Key Arena off to the left. I don’t know what the other ferry is exactly.