Ocean Waves...

I bet you are wondering where all the Ocean pictures are from my coast trip! Well, here you go...

Thanks for looking!!

Westport Pier

Fishing boats fascinate me! Not the little trolling boats you take out on the lake early on a Saturday morning to see if you can nab a trout for dinner, but the big guys that haul in nets full of fish and pots full of crab. I was excited to see a variety of them in Westport, WA. There were muscled fisherman loading boats with crab pots, muscled guys filling the boats with silver fish to bait the water, there were muscled guys driving forklifts....wait, wait...ummm, I mean there were all these Boats, yeah, boats!!!

Coastal Blooms

When I left for the coast I knew I was going to be shooting a lot of ocean, waves, rocks, sand, etc...but for some reason I never thought about all the amazing foliage I would be seeing along the Washington and Oregon coast...I was blown away by the foxglove, daisies, sweet peas and ferns.

Here are a few of my favorite flower shots...

Fallen Stars

Found Stars

Fire in the Sky

I saw a challenge on my 365 Project to use the "Bulb" Setting, I had seen the word bulb pop up on my camera's read out before when I was using a long shutter speed, but I thought it was some sort of error message, low and behold it is not an error, but a super cool setting that allows you to manually control how long the shutter stays open...as long as you are holding the button down it takes the picture!!

It is the perfect setting for fireworks, so I knew I had to play around. Unfortunately my tripod is missing a piece and I was not going to the big fireworks display. I was not going to let that hold me back though. So here are my hand held, driveway fireworks shots...

This is a sparkling fountain, I framed the shot to the right of the main fountain to just get the sparks along the side and not the big stream coming up the middle.


This is the one shot I got of a large one exploding high in the sky, only a few of the local town display made it over the roof line, so I didn't have many chances, You can see the effects of not having a tripod in the squiggly lines...but I actually like the effect! :)


One of our fountains fell over and was shooting things sideways just above the pavement...I like the way it almost looks industrial, like a welding shot or something


This last one is my favorite, again just a ground fountain, I just love the colors on this one and with the tight framing it almost looks like a big finale in the sky rather than a little fountain!


Hope you all had a wonderful 4th!!!!

If you want to see more fireworks shots I am sharing these along with many other photographers at:

Love That Shot
Kent Weakley Photography
Sky Watch Friday
Chickens on the Moon

Playing in the Garden...

Took the camera to my Mom's to get some shots in her amazing English Garden...

Clover...

Hollyhock...

Lily...

Fox Hunt at Fire Bird

Firebird Raceway

Sweet Shoppe...

I took these on a visit to a local candy store, my son was shopping and I was snapping away when the owner came up and informed me that they "don't really allow photography." Glad I got a few good ones before I was shut down! :)

Coconut Truffles...

Never-ending Jawbreakers...

Sixlets...

Suckers...

Sugar Sticks...
Thanks for looking!