On October 4th the Olympia Camera Club took a field trip to Cape Disappointment at the mouth of the Columbia River. We arrived when the light was quite harsh, so after taking a few photos around the North Head Lighthouse, we headed across the river to Astoria to visit the Astoria Column and have some…
By the end of September it’s time to start looking for some fall color around the Pacific Northwest. Dale and I took a drive south to check out the foliage around the Lewis River and to shoot the Lower Lewis River Falls. We didn’t end up with a lot of fall color, but I was…
When the Olympia Camera Club took a fall field trip to the Staircase Rapids part of the Olympic National Park, I figured there wouldn’t be many landscape type views within the forest, so I took my Macro lens and focused on some of the smaller details along the trail. There was lots of moss, mushrooms…
In March the Camera Club took another chance on a Mt Rainier Field Trip. We had scheduled it previously this year, but the weather turned bad and that trip was canceled. This month we got lucky. It was a beautiful day – sunny and warm. Warm for March, anyway. We went with no particular plans…
When November comes around here in the Pacific Northwest, it’s hard to make myself get out to take photos. The weather is usually dreary and cold which does nothing to inspire picture taking. But I did get out a couple times. On November 12, I took a drive over to the Nisqually National Wildlife…
Since coming home from the Tetons I had been taking a bit of a break from photography until my friend Rosalind suggested I join her on a trip to Mt. Rainier on Friday, October 25. By the time Friday came, it was pretty clear that there wouldn’t be any fall colors left at Rainier so…
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