Photos of My Port Townsend

My Port Townsend – A City in Photographs

Entries for October, 2009

Port Townsend Photo Club

Wednesday, the Port Townsend Photo Club took a field trip to The Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. The Reserve, a 150 acre nature preserve and garden is the former home of the Bloedel family. As you can see, we all have very different ideas about what’s important to photograph.

BADd Habit

The BADd Habit custom t-shirt shop sits on the corner of Tyler and Lawrence, Uptown Port Townsend. The display is pottery by well know potter Anne Hirondelle, who lives in town.a

Port Townsend Community Center

I was just leaving the monthly meeting of the Port Townsend Photography Club. I got in my truck to drive away. I couldn’t leave. The autumn night and hunter’s moon had me enthralled. I dragged out the camera and tripod and spent the next half hour taking pictures. I didn’t take that many as night [...]

Stormy Skies

That’s our greenhouse, but it’s just in this photo as an excuse to capture the dramatic clouds.

Fort Worden Moonrise

It pays to watch other photographers. I was headed to the lighthouse at Point Wilson to set up for a moon photo. It was a half hour before the sky would darken enough for the shot I had in mind. On the road there, a Japanese couple had stopped along the side of the road, [...]

Kinetic Skulpture Race

For the water portion of yesterday’s Kinetic Skulpture Race, the Octobus relies on those huge tires for flotation. Watching the other entry, the one with oars, it became quickly obvious that wheel powered propulsion was vastly superior to rowing or paddling in the water.

Port Townsend by Moonlight

I love walking by moonlight. There’s a sureal quality that the full moon lends that grabs me. It was a true fall night, cold and blustery, but I spent an hour out anyway. When I got home I grabbed my camera and spent another bit getting this photo, a five minute exposure. (f8 at ISO [...]

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