So much of photography is about timing. This past week, I have raved about the solunar table app for the Android and how it made our trip more efficient. Timing issues can also occur with activities other than tides. One of the things we noticed starting on Wednesday were hot rods and custom cars cruising around the Long Beach Peninsula. I wrote the sightings off to the resort culture here on the Peninsula. I was wrong. This weekend is the annual Ilwaco “Slow Drag” and the Ocean Isle “Rod Run.” Hot rods have taken over the Peninsula. People set up folding chairs on the main drag just to watch the hot rods cruise the main drag. All the cars of my youth were parading in front of me last night at dinner. I could have spent a whole weekend making pictures like this:
Little Red Roadster, Rod Run 2011
Fender Detail
Happy Days
But, our timing is off and we are leaving just as all the hot rods are coming to town. As we left the Peninsula, it was kind of odd passing all the hot rods and cars of the 1950’s and 60’s rolling into town.
Because you’re never quite through photographing, we took a side trip to revisit a little fishing village at the south end of Willapa Bay.
A fog bank was just rolling out so we made a decision to photograph the oyster stakes in the fog. Our timing was good, because the stakes and their reflections were interesting against the background of fog, but as soon as the fog lifted, the graphic elements of the scene disappeared. As we were getting ready to leave, a small flock of sea birds flew directly in front of us. I caught some of them in flight, but by then the fog had dispersed and I was rewarded with a near miss. Sometimes the timing isn’t there.
Oyster stakes, Willapa Bay
Those were the last pictures of the safari. Tomorrow, there is just a long trip from Seattle back to Raleigh.
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