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Welcome to the newish home of the Gooserocks: Puget Sound. We moved here from the rusting, increasingly fundamentalist Ohio just a few years ago, at the close of that incredible, century-old fairy-tale age when the United States was still America.
Update! Don’t miss Mrs. Gooserock’s new diary, under her ID of Puget4.
The Mighty Olympic Mountains
This view was shot by holding our budget digital camera
manually up to the eyepiece of a birdwatching telescope.
I love it! It evokes an image taken with a pinhole camera, which evokes some very happy memories.
Photography is not my area, but I do love this one. I said so over on the front page. I just wished I had seen more of the sunrises…but sunsets will do, I suppose…bs
Our first problem is that our eastern side is blocked by high wooded hills, so I can’t get any new sun views unless we’re travelling–which we’re never, these days.
Plus, Puget4 (She Who Must Not Be Disturbed) _loves_ her morning sleep hours so we can’t be out & around together at such times.
But we do get some very pretty westward sunrise views, and –oo–oo– </Gunther_Tootie_voice> actually I do have some.
Maybe I’ll stick up another entry today. Hmmm….
For the future, I think I probably have some sunrises in our charter sailing collections from Lake Erie if we can ever garage-sale through the rubble between us and them downstairs.
Burrows Island
The bay around Burrows Island sparkling in morning sun and
mist as a sailboat motors home.
I like this one too. YOu do good work.
Bridge Over the Pass Deception
Fog pours through the famous bridge at Deception Pass,
between Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands in northern Puget Sound.
The surrounding park is Washington State’s most-visited state
park.
Bridge Over the Pass Deception
Fog pours through the famous bridge at Deception Pass, between Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands in northern Puget Sound. The surrounding park is Washington State’s most-visited state park.
I almost like it as much as the sunset shot, but I’m can’t resist real fireworks.
This photo just captured me, in part because it seems so incongruous to me. I see blue sky, sparkling water, sun reflecting off pine needles and yet there is all this fog moving!
Nothing in my experience with fog connects with this. It is just amazing – one of those beautiful nature moments that I question, “Can that be real?!”
But, of course it is, which just increases my awe.
Thank you.
fog is allowed to do anything it wants.
Coming from the Great Lakes midwest, this is still impressive to us.
On a clear day we can have fog on the ground/water, fog halfway up the hills and clear above and below, or fog high up. Fog piles up in bays, puddles up in crannies or lurks between pairs of trees on hillsides.
This scene was caught on my way back from dropping off my wife at work.
I’m sure there must be places on the N. East coast that have such effects often. The Scottish west coast sure does. On our honeymoon we passed through a little village called Shieldaig just N. of the Isle of Skye. There was an island offshore in the bay with a big cottonwad fog bank in it. Giggling could be heard. A sailboat emerged and little kids said “do it agaid daddy.” They tacked and ducked back into the bank. Giggle-giggle-giggle.
Enjoy!
Grey is Beautiful
We get a lot of fog and mist here. A beach scene on a lazy midsummer morning.
For You Sunset Lovers
When we get a break from the mizzle (which is moister than mist, but drier than drizzle), there can be some glorious sunsets in the Pac NW. Mid to late summers are prime time, with almost no rain for a month or two on end.
this picture is just spectacular.
Did You Know You can Touch a Star?
Sunspots on the Sun photographed through The Humble Telescope, made by laying a pinhole mask onto a front-silvered mirror. Because the image jiggles, it’s much sharper to the eye than to the camera. The spot at the top is a few earth-diameters across. The “telescope” can be built for approximately $0.00 USD.
Tartan Landscape
Rosario Beach on Fidalgo Island, in the Sound’s classic tartan coloring when Canadian air blows in on a cool mid-morning.
Traffic Control
Sometimes the prime spots have photographers backed up like planes circling O’Hare. An unknown photographer prepares to make his fortune at Pass Lake on Fidalgo Island.
This one tells a charming story. Love it.
Brigadoon
When we lived in flat Ohio a scene like this was a family dream come true.
This is the Gare Loch near Glasgow, Scotland, well into a summer’s night in the early 80’s, taken during our honeymoon tour. We were referred to a Scots suburban Glasgow family, since I’d played Scottish accordion music for a relative’s wedding in Ohio. We were taken on an introductory 50-mile Saturday tour around the nearby Loch Lomond region. We saw this scene around 9:30 PM–at mile 35.
Adventures in Paradise
This scene combines our past and maybe our future as well. It’s is our vacation rental sailboat riding at anchor on our home waters of Lake Erie. But it’s not our Ohio–it’s Pelee Island, Canada, southernmost location in the Land of the Free. We may not see Lake Erie again, but we haven’t seen the last of Canada.
Oh, Gooserock, absolutely beautiful diary!!! I just knew that your pictures would blow me away. What a way to kick off the PhotoFair! I hope you still have scads of pictures left to greet us in the cafe. đŸ™‚
Wonderful, Gooserock! Our days in the cafe would be less rich without your photos and now other people will see them, too. Thank you! My fav is “Bridge over Pass Deception.”
Wonderful way to start the day — these are simply gorgeous!! What a place to live and what talent!! Thanks for sharing!
Well I was feeling a bit grumpy cause I got up earlier than I usually do this morning but after seeing all your amazing photos I’m feeling much more peaceful. Certainly can’t pick a favorite, they are all stunning.
It’s mid-day out west, we’ve been running errands and I’ve had some shop work to do, and now I see the diaries starting to pick up with some really great shots.
Nobody would be more surprised to see me getting attention for pictures than those who’ve known me all my life. I like to tell people I’m “art blind.” I can see all the colors–I just don’t know what they’re _for!_ I am aware of geometry however, so photography is the perfect medium, and since we’ve moved to such a beautiful part of the world, I’ve got the top set designer backing me.
Mrs. Gooserock, who’s the family’s full-function visual artist, has decided to step out from behind the curtain so hopefully there’ll be an entry from her in the next hour or so.
wonderful work as always, and always a welcome site in the morning hours sipping coffee at the cafe…Bravo sir.
I’m showing my husband the photos right now. We laughed at the Humble Telescope.
Gooserock, it was the wonderful photographs that you share in the cafes that got me started thinking about a photography fair. And as others joined you, and I saw the incredible talent popping up so regularly, I knew this was a project that had to be done.
Thank you so much. These are wonderful. Amazing.
When I found this place and saw the cafe it just seemed the natural thing to do. I’ve never actually been a photographer as a hobby, only in a few spurts on vacations. But then moving out here to Pugetland and being removed from our lifelong social circles, we took a lot of pictures to share with family and friends.
I guess BT was in a real expansion phase at the time I showed up to the right place at the right time.
Thank _you_ so much for getting the idea for this exhibit. My partner in crime, Puget4, had an absolute ball today putting together hers and browsing through the offerings. She’s been off her artsy pursuits for a while so maybe this will get her back into the swing again.
Gooserock,
I was so happy to see Mrs. Gooserock’s diary, I’m glad she had a good time. I hope she is around some on a Saturday for a more relaxed cafe experience.
(and I hope you see this message — I know it’s a couple of days late)
your pictures are awesome. very good work..
I had to save this diary for last tonight Gooserock, since I knew it would be rich and lovely. And it does not disappoint. Thanks for these and all your photo-inspirations.