Continuing from the beach walk earlier this same day.
The Town
The Ferry Landing
The Paper Mill
Spent a few days at Fort Flagler State Park. We were set up at the beach with a great view back at Port Townsend.
Next time please take your Green Organic with you.
My own personal Tide Pool.
Driftwood Hieroglyphics.
A once past Kinetic Skulpture Kueen, our neighbor, Dianna, previewed this year costume during yesterdays annual Rhododendron Festival Parade. I forgot to ask but I think this costume is a Mayan theme. Oh, and I have to tell you she spent many many hours creating it.
Pardon the back ground.
I’ve been learning a few more things with this Lightroom 4. With most of these images and because of the time of day and the unchanging light I picked one image, pushed the clarity slide to about 50 and lightly touched a few others and went with copy and paste. I’m liking it, how bout you?
Lately I’ve taken to carrying my older and smaller camera with a 60mm prime lens. I still like shooting with this one, it’s smaller, liter and now that I’m starting to learn a lot more of the functions on big camera, I’m finding more with the small one that I didn’t know were there. The only problem is when switching back and forth, I sometimes get confused because the functions are set a little differently on each.
Anyway here’s a couple from the yard a couple days ago.
For some reason, I think the second picture causes the post to be extra wide and when you receive it on an standard display it is to the right and out of view.
SORRY!
In the past I’ve built small metal stands for an etched glass artist, Jerry Perrett, www.glassetchingsbyperrett.com
This rusty one holds a 12″ disc of 3/8th thick glass that he works his magic on.
This different style holds a 20″ piece of glass.
Back in January he asked if I would be interested in doing a gate project with him for a former client of his. Having a shop full of equipment, the will to venture into uncharted waters, I agreed to go for it…
First Jerry drew up ideas for four different designs and submitted it to the client. The basic idea was to have a piece of etched glass mounted between two panels of metal sea grass.
The client chose design #2. Then Jerry proceeded to create a full sized drawing.
Once we were given the go ahead, I gathered the materials and went to work on it. This is it before having it powder coated. I have a long time acquaintance and artist friend, Gunter Reimnita, www.abraxascrow.com and he helped me with the flow of the sea grass. I do okay with straight lines and curves and I learned a lot from Gunter, and I thank him.
The finished and installed project.
The local car club we belong to had a get together BBQ today at a local park. These are some of the close shots I took today, to see more of the cars and people, that will be posted in a few day, go to www.ptrakerscc.wordpress.com
Went down to the beach just below our house to see all the sea life exposed when the tide goes minus. While Gayle went straight to all the critters and seaweed, I got hung up on textures and light. With the angle of the mid morning sun I found myself look at things that caught my eye from different angles trying to see how the light and reflections were changing the scene.
I think some of the little things I’ve been learning from Ray and following other blogs is starting to, maybe, get through this thick head of mine. Not to long ago I started following Daniel J. Gregory, http://www.danieljgregory.com/creativity/inspiration-flattery?utm_source=Daniel+j+Gregory+Photography+List&utm_campaign=407430d894-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email This post he did this morning. I think, spurred my thought process today.
These first two are a couple that caught my eye while walking at the base of a cliff.
This one is and old porcelain coated drawer maybe from a stove or refrig.
The rest I converted to Black & White…
Been working 3 days a week in Bellingham. This all started the first of March and ended yesterday. Now back to retirement and yes, the Honey Do List. 
Catching the 6:00 PM boat home. Here it is landing, unloading and waiting for me to load and head for the barn.
