Here on the Washington Coast the weather forecast is always suspect. Today was supposed to be 73F and partly cloudy. The part that was cloudy was the entire sky and it never made it above 57F. The overcast/foggy sky was God’s soft box. It rendered the landscape with a perfectly diffused, shadowless light until about 6:00 PM. At that time, the clouds finally burned away.
What to do on such a day? You have to have a back-up plan because this type of day will always show up when you go out to photograph. Our “plan B” was to drive up the peninsula to photograph the Oysterville Church. I had been there about thirty (yikes) years ago with another group of photographers. We went back just to see what it looked like. It hasn’t changed. The real question though, is how have I changed and what can I bring to the subject now that I couldn’t bring to it thirty years ago? That’s the challenge to the artist, to take a subject that he has seen or a subject that others can see and try to see something new or different that no one else has seen so far.
The Oysterville Church
Interior of the Oysterville Church
Piano and Flowers
In the afternoon, it was an early laundry day because the light was not suitable for the landscape photography. So after yesterday’s really long day, it was a day to chill out and just relax and then late in the day take a stroll along the dunes and make a happy snap or two to celebrate the return of the sun.
Late afternoon, Long Beach
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