Hidden Treasure, Picnic Point County Park, Washington
After spending the three days recently hiking in the rain hunting for waterfalls, creeks, and generally damp forest-y-type compositions in the the Olympic Peninsula, I was beat. On the long drive home, the clouds started breaking up and were shaping up to pretty interesting. The first thing I thought of was, "The sun. It burnses us, precious... Why does it burnss us?" The second thing was, "Where can I be for sunset and can I make it in time?"
Well, thanks to some photography friends I've met online, I was recently introduced to this great little beach very close to my house--which I had never even heard of! Thought this was possibly a good time to capitalize on this new-found knowledge--so dropped the fam off at home, quickly unloaded the car, grabbed my gear and booked out for the beach.
When I arrived, the sun was setting and the tide was very low. Which... means pretty much every composition I had in mind was out the window as I wasn't expecting that at all! Just another joy of the ocean. Instead, a whole array of new compositions opened up. In this shot, one of the first ones I took there last night, a small creek was emptying into the sea. And, because of the super low tide, its waters fanned out into a wide shallow flow making this composition possible.
Wasn't a bad way to close out the weekend. I'm not sure where else in the country you can spend the same day in the mountains, in a rain forest, and on an ocean beach.
Hidden Treasure, Picnic Point County Park, Washington
After spending the three days recently hiking in the rain hunting for waterfalls, creeks, and generally damp forest-y-type compositions in the the Olympic Peninsula, I was beat. On the long drive home, the clouds started breaking up and were shaping up to pretty interesting. The first thing I thought of was, "The sun. It burnses us, precious... Why does it burnss us?" The second thing was, "Where can I be for sunset and can I make it in time?"
Well, thanks to some photography friends I've met online, I was recently introduced to this great little beach very close to my house--which I had never even heard of! Thought this was possibly a good time to capitalize on this new-found knowledge--so dropped the fam off at home, quickly unloaded the car, grabbed my gear and booked out for the beach.
When I arrived, the sun was setting and the tide was very low. Which... means pretty much every composition I had in mind was out the window as I wasn't expecting that at all! Just another joy of the ocean. Instead, a whole array of new compositions opened up. In this shot, one of the first ones I took there last night, a small creek was emptying into the sea. And, because of the super low tide, its waters fanned out into a wide shallow flow making this composition possible.
Wasn't a bad way to close out the weekend. I'm not sure where else in the country you can spend the same day in the mountains, in a rain forest, and on an ocean beach.