a daily practice

reflecting pool, sfu

Landscape with two trees

The last of Skagit Valley's tulip fields... time to move on.

Field of magenta, scarlet, orange, yellow

Yellow & orange tulips with fence

Wading in red tulips

Tulip Field and Barn, Skagit Valley

 

A quick daytrip yesterday down to Mt Vernon and Le Connor, Washington to catch the end of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. This means another week of tulip photos I'm afraid! We found one field with substantial colour left, a second field was having its final row of yellow tulips deadheaded as we arrived, and otherwise acres and acres of dirt - recently harvested of the crops of tulip bulbs.

Lost Lagoon

Footbridge 3

Again, from my 11 and 19 December shoots - I'm not posting the exif data anymore (shutter speed, aperture etc.) unless it seems relevant. In these last few my purpose has been to first capture the late afternoon light and the mood it creates, focus thrown slightly off to accentuate the shadows, the sinuous lines, and the glistening coppery ground cover of wet bald cypress needles.

Footbridge 2

Footbridge 1