Tales of a Travel Photographer

52 Must See Places of Northwest

Standing in the middle of a flower dotter meadow on the eastern foothill of Mt. Rainier, I felt like an idiot.  I have travelled to five continents and a dozen countries in search of photo opportunities, extreme landscapes, adventure and a quest to see the world; and here lie in my very backyard of the Northwest sights that I have overlooked.

I decided to makeup for a decade of folly within a year.

For the next fifty two weekends that I am in the Northwest, I will find a place – new or retuning - and be there to enjoy splendid landscape.

It has now been said, just remains to be done.

Stay tuned.

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Week 1/52: (Sept 3rd) – Mt. Rainier

Week 2/52: (Sept 10th) – Puyallup Fair

Week 3/52: (Sept 17/18th) – Historic Columbia River Highway

Week 4/52 (Sept 24/25) – Langley, WA

Discovery Park

23rd August 2008

 

We used (one of the last) sunny Saturday's in Seattle to hang around Discovery Park in Seattle. Relatively unknown, it has a clean beach and a quaint lighthouse.

I wish we had waited until sunset to get some better light for the photos. (What we got was not bad)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lot of seashells on the beach.

 

Carry an umbrella on a sunny day. There is very little shade on the beach.

 

Have fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Technorati Tags: Seattle,Day trip,Beach,Discovery Park

Seattle citiscape taken from Alki beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New camera, old tricks.

The light was doing nothing for me. Seattle stood before me - proud and beautiful.

What struck me was how the buildings got taller as one panned right - and then the Seattle Space Needle on the left - as if balancing them out.

BTW, Nikon D60. You spend $1000 of hard earned money and most camera review sites call it "the best entry level digital SLR". Entry level?