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Visions of the Past and Present

Color photo. A plant growing out of a crack in a lichen covered rock. The plant has a long orange stem that fades to yellow-green at the end, where it splits out into a cluster of flowers with green and yellow petals. The stem is has a collection of small leaves growing from it that match the color of the part of the stem they grow from. The base, at the crack, is a collection of larger orange leaves, with smaller green ones beside them.
June 13th, 2025: Color Pass
2025-06-13

Since all of the photos in the last post were black & white, I figured I'd do a post of colorful photos from the same trip.  🙂 All of these were taken at Deception Pass State Park, mos...

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Urchin Rocks, a collection of three small rocky islands near Rosario Head in Deception Pass State Park, left to right across the bottom of the frame. White waves are washing against the leftmost rock. In the middle distance, on the left, there is a rocky island. Above, the sky is full of wispy clouds.
June 11th, 2025: Deception Pass
2025-06-11

I took a trip up to Deception Pass State Park with my friend Lisa of Kyr Creates yesterday.  She set up in Bowman Bay to paint, and I hiked from there out to Rosario Head to do some photograph...

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Black and white photo. The remnant of a massive cedar tree. The bark has fallen away and the wood underneath is gnarled and knotted. A hole all the way through the giant stump shows a bit of fallen log on the far side.
June 7th, 2025: Cedar Tree, Fairy Door
2025-06-07

Whenever I see a hole going right through a tree stump or trunk I always think "There's a fairy door". This one was right around the corner from where I took the shot I called "Poseidon's D...

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Color photo. Closeup of a Dunlin pulling a long, thin, yellow-green worm out of wet sand. The bird is mostly white, with a long thin beak, and brown and white wings.
June 3rd, 2025: Dunlin
2025-06-03

The last week has been fairly quiet on the photography front, so I went looking through my library to find something to post that I hadn't shown yet. Which is when I realized I'd done a whole ...

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Color photo. A tall sea stack, roughly triangular, at Ruby Beach on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. It rises, golden gray rock dotted with green grasses, above a blue gray rocky strip of beach. The sky beyond it is a golden white. A gap through the stack, at its bottom on the left, is lit golden by the setting sun hidden behind the stack. Rays of sunlight pour through this gap, lighting a path in the rocky beach.
May 27th, 2025: Poseidon's Door
2025-05-27

I spent Memorial Day weekend camping at the beach with a couple of friends, on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula.  We were fortunate to have had fantastic weather the first two days (never ...

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Color photo. Four people in vaguely medieval costumes. The middle is a large bearded man wearing a crown. The others are women: on the left wearing a red dress, on the right, a green dress with pink fringe at the bottom. The man is standing over the third woman, who is lying on the stage, facing the viewer, propped up on her elbows, smiling.
May 22nd, 2025: King Beard
2025-05-22

Back in April I had the pleasure of shooting the most recent performance by No Refunds Productions: King Beard The show was a hoot, as they always are, and I've pulled a selection of photos...

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May 20th, 2025: World Bee Day
2025-05-20

Today is World Bee Day, designated by the UN "to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development". I went back thro...

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Color photo. A Caspian Tern in flight. It is a white bird with black wingtips, a black 'cap', and brilliant red-orange beak.
May 13th, 2025: A Tern of Events
2025-05-13

I drove down to the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge last Friday, hoping to get some shots of migratory shorebirds.  My bookmark for the area on BirdCast had predicted high a...

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