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This past week, I attended an Eddie Soloway workshop on Whidbey Island. It was a good experience for me with an excellent and insightful instructor and sharing and talented fellow students. I highly recommend Eddie's book One Thousand Moons with photographs that I can best describe as inspiring. (you know I make good recommendations)I returned home from Whidbey Island via the Keystone-Port Townsend ferry across Admiralty Inlet and then south on the Olympic Peninsula and across the Hood Canal floating bridge to my home here on the Kitsap Peninsula. Because of holiday traffic, I had to wait about three hours in the queue while three sailings whittled at the waiting line of cars, trucks, and motorhomes. I worked on my laptop, read, and dozed while I waited in the rain. This time of year, there is only one ferry on the run and I imagine that the weather caused it to fall a couple hours behind schedule in it's expected half hour crossing. I could have returned home from the other end of the state in the time it took to travel the sixty-some miles. Here's a photo I made a couple days ago looking out across the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward the Pacific of the USS Stennis. I think it's home ported in Everett but it could have been in the shipyard in Bremerton about a dozen miles from here. (I try to avoid Bremerton and the shipyard in particular so probably wouldn't have noticed if it had been there.) (many years ago, I served on one of these aircraft carriers as a nuclear reactor operator and crossed the Pacific a couple times as well as all over the South China Sea, Tonkin Gulf and Gulf of Cambodia.) 
USS Stennis in the Strait of Juan de Fuca ©2006 Ed Book Peace Tags: nautical, ocean, sky, sunset, whidbey island
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 When I was at this location at the north end of the drivable portion of the outer banks islands of North Carolina, the light wasn't lit till darkness... When I returned from attempting to photograph the color at the beach during sunset there was not enough light to make a photograph with the film camera. However, the Pentax Optio S40 4MP digital camera I had with me would render an image that I could tweak a bit to get an acceptable 'documentary' image. On this trip, by dark each day, I would be so tired that I would just want to find a parking place and crawl into the back to my comfy bed and try to catch some zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz till the alarm at about o'dark thirty (4:30-5:30). So, I drove by the lighthouse looking for a parking place and pointed the camera out the window holding it against the door frame to steady it... nope, that didn't work... although the camera has a setting to make exposures as long as 4 seconds, I had to raise the ASA to 400 and after about a half dozen tries, I got out and set the camera on a tripod to steady it enough for the 4 second exposure... then, I had to tweak a bit in photoshop to get an acceptable image. This is one of those lights that pulses instead of sweeping the horizon so there was no beam projected like what I recorded when I photographed Hatteras light. Peace Tags: architecture, beach, light house, north carolina, ocean, phot expd
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