Photos of My Port Townsend

It was a dark and stormy day in the woods of Fort Worden. Click photo for larger view.

Back to Fort Worden to catch the golden maples. Click photo for larger view.

I’ve been out the last couple of days shooting autumn photos around Port Townsend. I’ll continue doing so for a short series of autumn impressions. Here’s the mandatory bright maple leaf picture. Click photo for larger view.

The old batteries and bunkers of Fort Worden are paradise to a young boy, and to old photographers, too. There are places dark enough that you need a flashlight to just walk around. Here we see a mother making sure her son stays close and doesn’t disappear into a bunker. Again.

On the way up to Memory’s Vault from the campground near Point Wilson, there are two peekaboo views of the lighthouse. I stopped to take photos at both. Honestly, there’s no truth to the rumor that I stopped because the trail is steep and I wanted a breather.

Memory’s Vault is off the beaten path in Fort Worden. The main entry side of the sculpture area has a series of concrete posts with haunting poems written on them, most of which are reminders of our own temporary nature here on earth. The sculpture is by Richard Turner and poetry by Sam Hamill commemorating. The poems are [...]

I went to Fort Worden to shoot photos of the wind-swept shore pines near Point Wilson Lighthouse. Dense fog made the scene spooky and dramatic. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a photo there that I liked. On the good side, I know the old photographer’s adage of “always look behind you, whatever your subject.” Behind me [...]