Photos of My Port Townsend

May peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing throughout the coming year.

Saturday, Santa Clause came to Port Townsend for our tree lighting ceremony. The Wild Rose Chorale provided music. Click photo for larger view.

I just enrolled in a photo workshop titled Close to Home, which is based on the popular Craft & Vision ebook, Close to Home: Finding Great Photographs in Your Own Back Yard, this workshop is designed to help us look more closely into your local surrounding and find great photographs no matter where we live. Ray Ketchum, [...]

Bob is running for one of Port Townsend’s two city council seats up for election this year. He set up a booth at the fair and did a lot of campaigning. Bob is president of the Port Townsend Photo Club and a good photo subject himself.

Each year in October, Port Townsend hosts the Kinetic Sculpture Race. We have a parade, the Koronation Kostume Ball and race. In the race the human powered Kinetic Skulptures have to traverse a varied course that includes streets with hills, Port Townsend Bay,  a sand dune at Fort Worden State Park and a mud pit [...]

This polished air intake gives a different view of the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. This is a Reflection Friday photo.

Stitch and glue plywood kayaks are an interesting breed. They look traditional but are actually very high tech. They employ a combination of thin marine grade plywood with fiberglass and epoxy. The resulting boat is very light, about half the weight of a basic plastic kayak. Pygmy Boats, based in Port Townsend is one maker [...]