Some photos from the last few days…
A snowflake graces the bird’s head during a February snowstorm.
The king tides this winter brought in new drift logs and rearranged the old ones
The first snow of the winter of 2019
The beach logs begin to disappear under the heaviest snowfall this area has seen in decades.
Mist shrouds the morning view of Mt. Rainier
The underside of a cloud layer catches red light about 15 minutes before sunrise
Murden Cove is the permanent or temporary home to dozens of species of sea birds, song birds, and raptors.
Murden cove is the fall and winter home to a large group of American Wigeons
A crow is caught flying past the 3rd quarter moon.
Two migrating ducks are silhouetted in the early morning light
This seal and one other visited our cove for a few days in January 2019. Around high tide they spent several hours resting on a drift log.
The second and possibly younger of the seals recently visiting our cove
A late afternoon view of snowy Mt. Rainier, with cormorants perching on the old pier pilings
The Bainbridge Island ferry is blurred in this long exposure of Mt. Rainier on a rare cloudless January morning
An Eagle greets the morning with a meal on the old pier pilings.
A storm front approaches creating a beautiful line of clouds at sunrise
Drift logs present an overarching view of the rising sun
It has been a great January for sunrise photography. This morning’s high clouds and smooth water, plus our local drift log all contribute to this colorful photograph.
After serving as a meal for a gull or crow, a discarded shell resides on a mossy drift-log
A new camera platform (i.e., a drone) allows new perspectives
A slow shutter with some camera movement and increasing the color saturation resulted in this sunrise abstraction
Brilliant orange dawn light reflected off still waters, with rough water and distant hills presenting shades of blue gray. Camera movement blurs the details.
Bainbridge Island lies about 8 miles west of Seattle, across Puget Sound. Murden Cove and many other locations on the east side of the island offer stunning views of the city.
At this point the moon is at the maximum totality of the eclipse. Since the moon was not exactly centered in the Earth’s shadow there is a brighter area at the top left of the moon.
During this first stage of the eclipse, just a small portion of the moon is in the Earth’s shadow. Low clouds added to the drama of the evening but fortunately they cleared before the total eclipse.
Morning crescent moonrise over Seattle with earthshine illuminating the shadowed part of the moon. The tiny dot of Mercury is also there, between the Columbia tower and the moon.
In the fall and spring, the sun will rise behind the skyline from the vantage point of Bainbridge Island.
For a few weeks a year, the sun rises behind the Seattle skyline from the viewpoint of Bainbridge island. February 2019
Puget Sound pours steam into the below-freezing air as the sun rises over the Seattle skyline.
I am lucky to live with a dog, and he has some dog friends here in the neighborhood. On occasion I take pictures of them running and playing.
Most of these “classic” images are from the late 1990s, and were captured on film and then scanned onto Photo CD to create a digital file. After switching to digital cameras in 2003 I rarely used film again.
