Saturday, August 7, 2010

2010 Dahlias!!

Summer is here!! I think this is a hydrangia bush...but I'm uncertain as I planted it 6 years ago...and didn't label it!! But I think the flowers are kinda cool!! I also think this is the first time it's bloomed!!


Feisty Freda Dahlia
The Dahlias are finally starting to bloom!! I hope to get a nice full garden shot this summer... this one I purchased from the Kitsap Dahlia Society near Bremerton WA...


Watercolors Dahlia
Another Dahlia I purchased from the Kitsap club... this was my year of "experimentation" with different types of Dahlias!!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Stargazers in bloom!!!

The frist flowers in the Dahlia Garden.... in the back ground you can see my "fierce" protector.... Ms Tana!!! I was using an aperture setting of 5.0 to focus on the flowers...which is why Tana is blurry....

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Murhut Falls Hike in Duckabush Valley



Murhut Falls




These photos were taken at Murhut Falls in the Duckabush Valley. The falls were surrounded with steep ridges which limits the sun light. When walking you turned around the bend on the trail you could feel the coolness of the falls even though you couldn't see it!!

The Trail to Murhut Falls!!!


It was such a gorgeous hike to the falls....all 0.8 miles with a 200' raise in elevation to approx 1200'!! This photography hobby may actually do me some good.....or else kill me!! I should've taken more photos on the hike to the falls since the sun had set behind a ridge on the way down....

Hood Canal near Hama Hama
I just love Madrona's.....and here you can see the little bay and the Canal as the sun was setting...


This is near the mouth of the river as it enters the Canal.... the river ran along this narrow peninsula that I was standing on....

On my way home from the falls, I saw this little road by the bridge that headed to an empty point in the Canal. The road was lined with Madrona trees and looked sooooo gorgeous!!! I need to go back to get some photos of them..... but on one side of the point was the mouth of hte river....and  the other side a bay within the Canal.... I need to post more of those photos..... when I get time!!!



Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Chai the Hunter!!

Manual mode, custom preset white balance.

Photos were taken at 8:55 p.m. June 5th.
It was tricky trying to capture a photo since it was dusk. But I'm slowly learning my camera settings. I'm now taking my photos in manual mode and using a grey card to create my custom white balance. I was focusing on movement and trying to catch that "blur" effect without having everything blurred.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Spring Flowers!!!



Check the SPSCC folder to the left for more of my recent spring flower photos.. I took all of them using manual mode....and I think they turned out surprisingly good.... especially considering I took them!!!

Monday, May 24, 2010

The Skokomish Valley in Spring

The sun had just broken through the Skokomish Valley... and the colors were so vibrant!!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Butterfly in Dahlia Garden....

Experimenting with shutter and metering mode

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The "kids" at play!!

Kota & Tana ready to play!!! The "kids" can be quite demanding!!

Monday, April 26, 2010

Waterfall-Pond at Night

My waterfall-pond taken at night while playing with shutter mode. The light was created from holding a 3 cell flashlight while shining it at the waterfall for 15 seconds....I thought it looked pretty cool!!

Friday, April 23, 2010

Pups in Winter!!


These are two of my "kids".... they a handful, but worth it!!