Sequim Sunset

This is another round of pictures from last summer. Will I ever catch up on my editing? I *almost* gave up my effort to keep them (mostly) in order, opting instead to concentrate on 2011 pictures. DMA and I are out ALL THE TIME taking pictures (ok, ok, just about every weekend for me!!) and I have adopted a mental "jpeg diet." I try to only take a few pictures while we are out, and have a very discriminating eye. I don't like it. I want the freedom of snapsnap snapsnapsnap "Ooo pretty!" snapsnap "wow" snapsnap snap "sweet." Instead, I am scanning, scanning, scanning, always looking for the "perfect" frame, in order to weed out the junk frames and stay true to my "jpeg diet." The spark is gone. And, when combined with the damp, bitter cold of winter, photography lately has been exhausting for me.

Today, I wondered if it would be better to skip past these old frames? I wondered if I should just start with my glorious New Years Day photos from the Oregon Coast??? I dunno, I just couldn't do it. Is the Virgo in me? The First-Born tendencies? My darned stubborn inner stive for order?

Who knows?

All I know is that these pics were taken in Sequim back in July. I **finally** made the trek out there to see the lavendar fields only to have my dreamy illusions of wide, open rolling fields of purple shattered. Maybe we went to the wrong area of town, but the parts we saw were small & they had a bunch of stupid white tents. oh grr. Oh well... per usual, dma and I made up our own agenda and just wandered. We found a true gem though: a park overlooking the peaceful warm summer sunset.

I selected just a few of my very favorite pictures from this day to edit. The two of the path below are a toss up... I can't decide if I like the wide angle, or the zoomed & cropped version better. its a puzzlement.



I love waves, well, actually just about any moving water. I set up my tripod & took quite a few frames of the wooshing waves below (oh btw, the park was on cliff!). I cropped in & warmed up this frame an itsy bitsy teeny tiny bit.

And, at last, the blazing sun.

What a beautiful day! I can't wait for summer... how 'bout you?