Vanessa and I went up to Seattle for the wedding of Tracy Fuentes and Pat Boyle, friends of hers from the graduate program at ASU. While there, we went on a drive around the Olympic peninsula, into Olympic National Park, and around back to Seattle, here are some pictures from the drive.
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DSCN0224.JPG BIG A Bald Eagle near Dungeness Spit on the northern shore of the Olympic Penninsula. |
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DSCN0228.JPG BIG Vanessa and me in front of an ancient tree in Olympic National Park on the road up to Hurricane Ridge |
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DSCN0232.JPG BIG A 1/2 second exposure makes the depths of the Hoh rainforest during an evening rainshower bright, if a bit blurry. |
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DSCN0237.JPG BIG On the beach portion of Olympic National Park, we're on our way to the exciting and romantic "Beach 2" when we found a grove of trees with cancer. |
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DSCN0238.JPG BIG A sort of surreal shot into the sun along the beach before sunset, with tree debris in the foreground. |
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DSCN0239.JPG BIG Hmmmmm. Self-shot. |
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DSCN0240.JPG BIG Looking down along Beach 2. |
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DSCN0242.JPG BIG Vanessa walking along the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean on Beach 2 |
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DSCN0244.JPG BIG A self-timed picture of me on the beach. Its kinda cold, actually, and the wind is nontrivial. |
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DSCN0246.JPG BIG A cool shot of Vanessa and a break in the clouds reflected in the receding ocean water. |
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DSCN0248.JPG BIG Getting on toward sunset, 9:30PM in the Pacific Northwest, a lot different than 32 degrees North latitude Tucson. |
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DSCN0249.JPG BIG More of the sunset sequence. |
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DSCN0251.JPG BIG Sunset, that's Destruction Island to the right of the Sun. |
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DSCN0252.JPG BIG Same as above but a longer exposure. |
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DSCN0255.JPG BIG The Sun goes down on Beach 2 and Vanessa and I start heading back for Seattle. |
