The State of Washington is divided by the North-South Cascade Mountains, a line of "extinct" volcanoes. The scare-quotes are real (see 1980's eruption of Mount St. Helens). The climate (in more ways than one) of each half of the state is dramatically different. The Western half is known as the "wet" half, due to the …
We live in Western Washington, but one of my favorite environments has always been rural Eastern Washington. On this side of the Cascades, it's often wet and rainy, with gray cloudy skies for most of the fall and winter. Eastern Washington is much drier, with brown, rolling hills. Eastern Washington grows wheat, hops, and, increasingly, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #245: Environments
I'm no professional photographer at all, but I do love to snap pictures with my iPhone camera everywhere I go. My most common subject is landscapes, with a preference for rolling hills, mountains, and water. Now, the last week of February, we flew down to Indian Wells, California, for a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #240: The Photo Road Most Traveled
With 2022 coming to an end, I guess it's time to look back at what we captured on the digital equivalent of film. With the vast majority of my photos taken with my always-ready iPhone 13 Pro, that's a lot of photos! I'm going to start in the very near past, and work backwards. Today, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #230: Last chance for 2022
I think I live in the most beautiful part of the USA, the Pacific Northwest. Within one or two hours' drive, you can be at the ocean, the lake, the mountains, or the desert. Let's start right close to my home, in Everett, Washington, just north of Seattle. This is Silver Lake, about a half-mile …
Continue reading Take a Guided Tour, Through my Beautiful Pacific Northwest
My first thought was...this is way too easy! Landscapes are a large proportion of the photos I take. So, it was difficult to pick one that's my favorite. I figured I'd stay close to home. I have always been very fond of the "shrub-steppe" terrain found in Central Washington State. The road that goes south …
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