black and white beach

bright and early. those are the best words to describe Friday morning. While most people were either huddled outside their favorite store, or snuggled in their nice warm blankets, dma and I were on the Edmonds/Kingston ferry. Our destination de jour was the Dungeness Nat'l Wildlife Refuge in Sequim.

It was such a beautiful morning!!! I loved the way the light was hitting the morning dew on the branches and broke the rule of "don't shoot into the sun" to get this frame:

And then I took a ton... i mean a ton... of pictures of the little rocks on the beach as the tide crashed onto the shore. These are two of my favorites...

I also took a few using in-camera black and white. The pic below has not been edited.

The beach filled up quickly, so we headed out... the road to Hurricane Ridge was closed for the season, so we kept heading west and explored a bit of Port Townsend. We found some little pipers which proved to be both photogenic and entertaining. I took this shot with the 70-300mm and teleconverter using manual focus (oh the joys of the teleconverter!!). I liked the vertical pattern of the three birds and ended up cropping in to get this frame:

Sometimes, my fuzzy memory bugs me. For example, I can't remember which book I saw an overly over-exposed beach scene in... I think it was Tom Ang's book? oh well. sigh. I took advantage of the bright evening sunset light and intentionally over-exposed one of the piper pics. I did some other minor adjustments in photoshop, too...

And thus concludes Black Friday 2009! At this point, the weekend was just beginning... I will have more posts up in a few days. i think.

Thanks for checking out this round of pics & hope that you are having a beautiful day.