Wok on Fire

Last Thursday I escaped the office for a bit... these are the pics from my trip to the exciting town of Silverdale and beyond...

Raindrop Macro

After a quick drive through one of Washington's many fine fish hatcheries, we spotted a turn off with a trail that lead down to a marsh. Intriguing, yes? We startled a blue heron but don't have the pics to prove it. While waiting for that stubborn heron to move and keeping an eye out on some playful seals, I snapped this macro shot of the blackberry bushes. I wanted to focus on the water droplet and ended up doing a little bit of cropping when I got home. It isn't too interesting to look at (I won't be printing this one. no way man) but it was good practice.

Limitations

This is the view of the lovely marsh area. I am calling it "limitations" because it was the best I could do with the lens I was using. Silly me, I still had my 50mm portrait lens on my camera.

Joemma Beach

With the help of garm-garm we found a handful of peninsula beaches. Some were interesting, others were not so much. This one, though, Joemma Beach, is on the list of places to go back to sometime. That would be "sometime when it is not so rainy." We managed a few excellent frames before the rain came down, marking the end of another great trip.

Check out the differences in the water in the top and bottom pics. The top pic had a shutter speed of 1/10th of a second (with an aperture of f22 & ISO 400), while the bottom one was a bit slower at 1/2 a second (at f32 & ISO 100). Neat, huh?

I would have liked to try to get the dock at a slightly different angle, but there was a big ol' tree in the way. I tried a few different spots, but then, well, it became too rainy and my poor little microfiber cloth was getting soaked. Grrr. Rain. I love it, but grrrr.

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