Kalaloch Kaleidoscope

 

 

We’re back.  The car has been unloaded, the laundry is being washed and I have a mountain of pictures I’m eager to sift through.  Covering Kalaloch and our time there would coalesce into a badly written, poorly shot, coffee-table sized graphic novel minus the damsel and tights.  So I don’t bore you all with lengthy details and a zillion of-kilter shots of the Farmers,  I’ll break it up into loosely relevant ‘chapters’.  The first of which covers one of the reasons why I love Kalaloch so much.  

 

 

 

Nikon D60 85mm f/5.6   1/4000”   ISO 400

 

This was taken the evening we arrived.  David, my dad and I were walking to the lodge to confirm the I, the holder of the reservation, was truly there.  The Sitka spruce trees that line the bluff are beautiful despite their twisted, wind ravaged appearance.

 

Nikon D60  34mm  f/4.0   1/13”   ISO  400

 

On the way back from the lodge, the sun was peeking through the wood just before our campsite.  I think there might be dragons.

 

Nikon D60 24mm f/5.0    1/1250”  ISO 400

 

Nikon D60  70mm  1/3200”  ISO 800

 

 

 

Nikon D60  85mm  f/10  1/250”  ISO 200

 

 

Nikon D60  270mm  f/5.6   1/1250”  ISO 800

 

Nikon D60  85mm  f/8  1/125”  ISO 200

 

 

Nikon D60  300mm  f/5.6  1/4000”  ISO 100

 

Nikon D60  70mm  f/5.6  1/10”  ISO 800

 

Same evening.   It was pretty dark when I took this and thought it was a great opportunity to play with slow shutter speeds.

 

Nikon D60  300mm  f/5.6  1/80”  ISO 800  Cropped 100%

 

Full of firsts, I thought I’d shoot for the moon.

 

Nikon D60  40mm  f/4.0  30”   ISO 800

 

An experiment.  This is a shot of the moon setting.  I used my tripod, remote, 8 pt. light filter and shutter speed of 30 seconds. 

Don’t break out the Windex, there’s no need, the white blob to the right of the moon is a star.

 

Nikon D60  135mm  f/4.5  1/200  ISO 200

 

The wooded drive in from the highway.  I love the column of light breaking through the trees.

 

 

Nikon D60  85mm  f/9.0  1/200”  ISO  100

 

“My little buttercup, has the sweetest smile.  My little buttercup, could you stay for awhile….”

 

 

Nikon D60  65mm  f/10.0  1/250”  ISO 140

 

Midway up the bluff.  A veritable gauntlet of buzzing bumblebees to get to the beach from our campsite. 

I wouldn’t have thought that dandelions would be so dangerously beautiful, but the destination is worth the stinging risk.

 

 

Nikon D60  24mm  f/10.0  1/250”  ISO  160

 

View from the beach looking towards our campsite. 

 

Nikon D60  85mm  f/10.0  1/250”  ISO  140

 

Nikon D60  85mm  f/8.0  1/160”  ISO  100

 

There is an outcropping of rocks to the right that are only accessible during really low tides. 

The seagull and the starfish; it sounds like it should be a children’s book title. 

 

 

Nikon D60  85mm  f/8.0  1/320”  ISO 100

 

Snail shells on the beach.

 

Nikon D60  85mm  f/8.0  1/250”  ISO 100

 

Feeling a little crabby?  David found this little guy on the beach during our tide pool walk. 

We washed him off, flopped some kelp down and waited for the next wave to make it in. 

I was more than a little nervous of being caught off guard and getting my camera wet, but it all worked out in the end and am so excited to have this. 

David got a “shot” of his own, my biscuits in the air for the world to see as I hunkered down in the sand. 

I will not be posting that award-winner or I will be more than just a little crabby.

 

Nikon D60  30mm  f/10.0  1/250”  ISO 125

 

Ruby beach, a few miles north – and looking north – of Kalaloch.

 

Nikon D60  62mm  f/4.5  1/1600”  ISO  100

 

Another experiment;  Panorama without a tripod. I flubbed it a bit – a lot actually – but overall it’s not too horrible for my first try.  Ruby beach looking southwest. 

That’s Destruction Island on the right.  The lighthouse has since been decommissioned, but when I was a kid it was running. 

We would see if we could hold our breath as long as it took the light to spin back around.  I don’t ever remember making it.

 

 

Nikon D60  24mm  f/6.3  1/60”  ISO 200

 

Looking up through the maples in the Hoh Rainforest.

 

Nikon D60  85mm  f/10.0  1/250”  ISO  200  Cropped 100%

 

Nikon D60  24mm  f/5.0  1/60”  ISO  200

 

I guess I have a thing for beams of light.  This one was taken on the Hoh river trail.

 

 

Just a few of many, many pictures.