Spooky Woods!

It was a dark and stormy day in the woods of Fort Worden.

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Fort Worden Gold

Back to Fort Worden to catch the golden maples.

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Fall at Fort Worden

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.

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Keeping the kid in sight in Fort Worden's bunkers

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.

Photo of Point Wilson Lighthouse taken from Battery Hill

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 in Fort Worden

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 also collected in Hamill’s book Destination Zero and center around Fort Worden State Park itself, and on its transformation from a military base to a place of peace and recreation.

One of the pillars in the exhibit says:

A note at the bottom of one of the introduction pillar notes:

Washington State Arts Commission
In Partnership with
Washington State Department of Corrections
State Parks and Recreation Commission

Funding was provided through
Art in Public Places Program
Washington State Arts Commission

Built by Fabricatioin Specialties
with assistance from inmates of the
Clallam Bay Corrections Center

The sculpture is by Richard Turner and poetry by Sam Hamill.

For more, visit The Virtual Tourist.

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Sailboat moored by the Marine Science Center

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 was this lovely wooden sailboat moored to a buoy beside Port Townsend’s Marine Science Center.