I made this digital image on the way to Seattle on Friday morning. The Walla Walla was on it's first crossing to Bremerton and here was entering Rich Passage as we were entering Puget Sound on the ferry Hyak. The mountains are The Brothers and Mt Jupiter in the Olympics and the first light of dawn was bathing them in alpenglo. A larger image is in panorama





This image was made a little later and shows one of the ferries that crosses between Fantleroy, Vashon Island, and Southworth on the Kitsap Peninsula. Tahoma meaning "the mountain" in Chinook Jargon was the name known to Native Americans until 1792 when George Vancouver, the first European ship captain to see it, named it Mt. Rainier for a European who never crossed the ocean. The lenticular cloud covering the mountain top is called a rain cap��an indication that precipitation is due on the mountain. Its formed by air rising on the mountain's slopes when moist Pacific air masses meet Tahoma. (There was once a effort to return the mountain's name to Tahoma but was stiffled my a lobbying effort funded by Rainier Beer.)





On my return from the city after a long day of Adobe ImageReady classes, evening alpenglo bathes Tahoma and Little Tahoma as Chinook, one of the fast passenger ferries passes us riding Walla Walla at Manchester Point as we enter Rich Passage on our way to Bremerton. These images were made with a Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera hand held at 1/125 sec with no filtration. On this crossing I met Brian, an Olympic College student taking the round trip ferry ride to make some digital images for one of his classes, we got quite chilled the wind and it was a challenge trying to keep steady shivering and in the wind on the top deck.





Alpenglo on the seagulls riding the wind rising from the ferry, I noticed that one of the birds isn't colored in pink. I didn't manipulate this image except for cropping and resizing and didn't add the bird��strange. Its a California Gull and the others are Gray Gulls.