Looking Across The Estuary

About a week ago, I drove across the bridge on a mission: Get fresh saltwater. That always sounds just a bit confusing. Fresh water and salt water with water and fresh and then salt in the same sentence. I was after saltwater to replenish the old saltwater in the cold saltwater water aquarium. Ah, forget it. You know what I mean. Anyway, I drove over to South Beach to get some fresh saltwater. When I got there, I saw things in a way completely different from my many previous visits. What changed the way I see, you ask. The new picturer did it. I no longer see through eyes. I see through the viewfinder implant that I received with the Nikon D40. A great way to see, if you ask me.




The picture fest began at last light. The exposures were mostly a little over 30 seconds. The orange glow off in the distance is from the sodium vapor lights on commercial fishing vessels coming back with their loads of dungeness crab. Keep in mind that, except for the bridge, just about everything in this shot is moving on liquid cold fresh saltwater water.









It's all about color. And color at night in a picture is like stealing. I feel naughty.





The United States Coast Guard helicopter paints a faint smile over our fair city.














That streak of light bars on the left is actually a fishing boat traveling left to right. It has illuminated the F/V Seeker quite nicely.




Here you can see the tail end of the fishing boat entering the Port Docks, protected by a rock jetty.




Parting shot: Sunrise as viewed from the logging road between my little hill and the world of paved roads.