December 27 was the day I traveled back to Seattle after being in Hawaii for 14 days. I returned to a wet, cold, and grey Seattle. I was definitely not very motivated by the relative “blech” of the Northwest. So, I gave myself a couple of days off of my Project 365.
I started back up on December 29 with a crappy little iPhone shot of my cat lounging between my legs. I think she had finally forgiven me for being gone for two weeks.
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The next day had one of those beautiful moments just before sunset when downtown Seattle was bathed in beautiful light.
I was still struggling with creativity on New Year’s Eve, so I just shot some bubbles.
Over the next few days, I slowly began to find my creative rhythm again. I started shooting more abstracts and playing with light. Since there are no sea turtles or surfers in my backyard anymore, I had to do something else.
I decided to change things up a bit on January 5th and did more of a still life.
On January 6th, I saw on Orca Network’s Facebook page that there had been several orca whales spotted in Puget Sound that morning. Unfortunately, I didn’t see it early enough to head out while they were just off the shores of West Seattle. But I decided to hop in the car and tried to follow them.
I caught a glimpse of them from the north end of Golden Gardens. Then I stopped in at Carkeek Park, but saw on Facebook that I had just missed them. So I decided to try and beat them to my next spot, and headed straight for the Edmonds ferry terminal.
I was starting to think I had missed them again, but then someone just south of me reported seeing them. And sure enough, a few minutes later the research vessel that was trailing them came into view and I saw several blows and quite a few splashes on the Kingston side of the water.
Unfortunately they were too far away to get a decent picture, but I snapped this shot anyway. You can just barely make out the research vessel to the left of the ferry.
On January 7, I spent several hours helping my wife set up for the 25th annual Ray’s Retrospective Wine Competition. We were organizing all the wines in the banquet facility. There is a great big salmon sculpture above the fireplace which is lit up nicely.
On January 8th, I decided to capture an oldie but a goodie…lines.
And last but not least, on January 9th I really liked the way the streetlight was hitting the rain on this window. I wonder if this means I’m fully “recovered” from the two weeks in Hawaii.
