I’ve been other places since my last post, but I seemed to be in a dry spell. I only used my (repaired fairly recently) 100mm f/2 on this trip, since I wanted to leave the bulk of the camera bag back home and have read traveling with just one prime can bring out creativity from a lack of versatility.
Last time I went to Anacortes with my camera, I started with Cap Sante Park. It’s busy, but the view is just a few steps away from the parking area. The main things in view up there are the city of Anacortes itself and the nearby oil refineries, but other sights can be had too.
To the west is a view of the marina and north side of town, graced here briefly by either a raven or crow.
To the east is the oil refinery, along with views that can stretch to the mountains a ways out. Unfortunately, a heatwave this year wiped out most of the snow.
The rock face itself at Cap Sante sometimes harbors sights of its own.
After Cap Sante, I went to Washington Park. It’s often a good place to get close to wildlife, though lately (as I’ve seen in other parks I’ve been to in the past month) there seem to be more squirrels and chipmunks than birds. There’s also a few flowers left for the bees as well.
White crowned sparrows continue to be rather bold (though people feeding the birds here makes other birds bold too). I got some great shots of one near the first big stump on the loop. I can’t personally make up my mind on the last shot posted here, as the fringing adds an artificial cast that I consciously take interest to but subconsciously seem to want rid of. (My first pick of the overexposed fringed shots had a lot more fringe on the sparrow itself, but when it came time to develop I wound up using another that had less.)
It might also be worth noting the software I use has changed since my last post. I was previously using mainly GIMP on the out-of-camera JPEGs (with Luminar on hand for harsher work on RAWs if needed). This post consists of RAWs developed with Affinity Photo.
Joe R. Stead 