pjf photography

Jupiter tries to catch the waxing crescent moon on a clear evening above Alta Lake.

(Before the Winterfest fireworks in Chelan – two pics stitched together)

There is a special time of day when the glow of your streetlight is as intense as the glow from the morning or evening sky. In well lit towns and cities, a snowy environment can assume an otherworldly appearance. Twilight lasts only a moment but you can watch if you look. Remember (this is for me) rule #1 for these types of endeavors: LEAVE EARLY.

Here are two other attempts at capturing the moment, both of Wells Dam on the mighty Columbia.

Made this using jpeg2swf. Sadly, the camera’s batteries gave out before the night did. Oh, the streaks are airplanes.

Close… One day I’ll get the shot. Probably needs some water droplets.

Hiked a hill and made some pictures during the Chelan Fire and Ice fireworks display. The rest are online here.

Kevin and I made some pictures at the sculpture park after Christmas. It was sunset and there were a lot of folks walking around even though the weather was quite brisk. There were a couple of other folks shooting too but we were the only ones running flashes off-camera so I’m sure we looked like pros…

More pics here.

is a big antenna. But that was long ago, in the summertime.

It was a cool evening as the sun set on the old ferry dock pilings at Titlow Park in Tacoma.

How often do you get to write ‘red-shafted flicker’ anyway?

These two males were hanging out where I’m living near Pateros, WA. They were out there for some time, heads bobbing up and down and seeming to be checking each other out. It’s fall so it’s not about mating and one appears to be losing downy feathers suggesting it’s just growing out of being a juvenile…