While walking around the most popular sakura garden in Seattle noticed sunlight bleeding through one of the trees, high up above hundreds of people standing below photographing, appreciating and enjoying the springtime bloom.
That time of the year…
1/350 sec at f/5.6, ISO 800
Photographing the sunset after several hours of starring at the sun above the horizon.
[HDR] 1/20 sec at f/11, ISO 100 | 0.7 sec sec at f/11, ISO 100
From the streets of Seattle
1/180 sec at f/8, ISO 800
1/180 sec at f/4.8, ISO 200
Not just surviving but thriving.
1/160 sec at f/4, ISO 800
Fuzzy horses of Iceland
1/350 sec at f/5.6, ISO 200
There were barely any signs of Spring just a week ago but this week it seems to take off with a severe winter storm and higher temperatures melting snow and exposing beautiful rocks on the Icelandic west coast.
2 sec at f/11, ISO 100
Compared to last week it was not cold at all, although the wind started catching up minutes after taking this photo. Later in the evening we were stuck in Snæfellsnes peninsula for the night due to severe weather conditions over the mountain pass (Highway 56) making it impossible to get back to our hotel.
Obligatory BTS photo with the phone camera:
The Vikings believed the Northern Lights illuminating the sky were the reflections of the Valkyries' armor as they led the warriors to Odin.
4 sec at f/4, ISO 1600
Taken, exported and blogged during my SEA-KEF flight, the lights became visible just after sunset when the western sky was not completely dark.
3 sec at f/4.0, ISO 25600
This is not the first time I was photographing the auroras from a flight. It’s not easy to get a satisfactory view out an airplane window in dark, when the double pane window reflects the tiniest light source in the cabin. More than photographing its the joy of watching the lights that makes me happy.
Not to put up against the image above taken with a medium format digital camera, here are a few blurry photos taken with the iPhone:
Big sagebrush once dominated enormous expanses of the great basin in Washington State, where vast swaths of Columbia Basin are now irrigated to grow our food.
128 sec at f/8, ISO 800
Sculpted by wind and waves over hundreds of years
32 sec at f/22, ISO 100
Behind the scene:
The process of making known one's thoughts or feelings
1/250 sec at f/2.8, ISO 800
Difficult to perceive from the Deception Pass bridge 180 feet above the water surface, the strait that connects Skagit Bay to Strait of Juan de Fuca has a varying depth of 6 to over 200 feet at places, combined with strong riptides poses danger to water traffic and divers.
30 sec at f/2.8, ISO 1250
0.4 sec at f/16, ISO 50
Water follows the path of least resistance through rocks and sand, providing excellent opportunities to capture the movement in extended exposure photographs.
Taken on the first day of the year, when the weather became favorable to go to the beach. We had the first winter storm the day after Christmas, but the weather started to clear up towards the end of 2021. More photographs from this day in this blog post.