Familiar Places

Back to a familiar spot on the WSU trails...quiet, shady little Mill Creek. There's a little foot bridge behind me, and it's just a few steps down the bank before you can dip your toes in the water.  I used to stop here with Clover, especially on hot days so she could get a drink. This was my first trip here without her, which felt really strange. I'm realizing that I spend a lot less time outdoors and also a lot less time photographing since she passed away. It's starting to feel like it's time for a new puppy at our house.

Evergreen Chorus

Same view as last week's purple sunrise photo, Purple Haze, and same fog too. The WSU campus is on a hill, so if it's foggy then the campus either tends to be in the fog when the rest of the town isn't, or above the fog when the rest of the town is. In this case, the fog was only east of campus, which is countryside heading toward Brush Prairie. I've left this photo in color, just to give an idea of what the light looked like that morning.  It was a very bright fog, and I suspect it burned off within the hour.  I was on campus with my camera around 9am, and I consider myself lucky to have arrived under such pretty weather conditions. Great low-lying fog two days in a row!

Refrain

It's black and white week in my photography class, so this will be tough for me.  I'm going to try to at least shoot with black and white in mind.  I'm not sure I'll always post in black and white, mainly because color just makes me so happy.  For today's photo, black and white wasn't that difficult; the scene was essentially B&W to begin with.  I was back at the WSU Vancouver campus the day after my sunrise, and sure enough I encountered exactly the same fog!  This time though I was there around 9am.  I thought it would be interesting to post photos of last week's sunrise scenes, but this time in daylight lighting. Today's photo is almost the identical scene from yesterday's pastel photo, just slightly to the left.  I guess I wanted to keep the lower evergreens out of the image, although I'm not sure why. (I think I saw this as a more effective Michael Kenna composition...more on him in tomorrow's post.) Still, it's an interesting high key scene, and it does show the level of thickness in the low lying fog. 

Coda

The third in my sunrise series catches the waning pastel light of this amazing morning. It definitely had me shouting encore, and I'm vigilantly getting up before dawn each day in anticipation of another spectacular scene before the month is out. Encore! Encore! 

Purple Haze

In yesterday's Mt. Hood sunrise photo, there was a little section of pink in the lower left of the photo. Today's photo is focusing just slightly to the left of that area. The light was so interesting here, glowing in the low lying fog. Plus the tree tops sticking out of the fog gave the scene a surreal view. It's interesting, because the entire sunrise was this pinkish lavender color, but the clouds directly over the mountain in yesterday's shot were interpreted by the camera with a much warmer light color. I like this photo a lot more, not only for the light color but also for the otherworldly scene. Part two of a three part sunrise series.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.