Photos of My Port Townsend

Friday morning broke clear, calm, and crisp. We had our first light frost in Port Townsend. I was down at Kah Tai Nature Park for daybreak and the reflections of autumn gold on the lagoon. Click photo for larger view.

Autumn isn’t all bright colored leaves. There are berries ripening and tree limbs turning bare. Port Townsend also has some stormy skies.

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.

I love the poplars that line the lagoon in Kah Tai Nature Park. Some years they turn a beautiful golden yellow in the fall. Though they’re starting to turn, the leaves are falling off the trees pretty quickly. It will be a race to see whether we get good color there before too many leaves [...]

I stepped out early in the morning, hoping for some golden hour light. Instead, there was just gloom and overcast. Then the honking started. I spun around looking for the geese. There’s only one bird that makes that horn-like racket. They flew in – low overhead – heading for Port Townsend Country Club, where they [...]

I went out to get some photos of the bluff below Chetzamoka Park, thinking that just before dawn I’d catch a nice glow on the cliff face. Didn’t happen. With no clouds in the sky there was no diffusion and no color except when facing directly at the sun. So, again, I followed the old [...]

More and more Port Townsend people are complaining about the number of deer in town. I walked out of our fence, built to keep deer out of our garden, heading for my car. These two young deer had stopped for a rest in the shade. Even though I was barely 10 feet away, they held [...]