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365 Project: A year in photographs

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Making New Year’s resolutions is typically not my thing. But for 2016 I made a year-long commitment to take (at least) one photograph each day–a ‘365 Project.’ Some photographers give themselves “rules” for their 365–only shots of family, new technique each week or some other focus for their project. As for me: No rules. Just shoot!

Crazy picture-taking-gal that I am, I’m also taking on a ’52 Project.’ One photograph each week for a full year. And for this project, I do have a focus. My subject for my 52 Project is our garden. It’s something I’ve thought about for a long time, taking a year to record how the garden blooms, grows and dies across the seasons.

Here are a few of my photos from the first two weeks:

Ardea and Winslow in the tub

Hummingbird

Mt Rainier

Eagle

Ferry

Wally

Winslow

A shout out to Mamas with Cameras, the amazing and inspiring women I’ve met through this group–and their encouragement to tackle this project!

Take the road less traveled, Beth

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Seattle in the fog

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The prairies are all right. The mountains are all right. The forests and the deserts and the clear clean air of the heights, they’re all right. But what a bewitching thing is a city of the sea. It was good to be in Seattle–to hear the foghorns on the Sound, and the deep bellow of departing steamers’ to feel the creeping fog all around you, the fog that softens things and makes a velvet trance out of nighttime.

~Ernie Pyle

Bainbridge ferry

Puget Sound ferry

Ivars restaurant in the fog

Duwamish cranes

Pacific Northwest

Mountains in the fog

Space Needle in the fog

Raindrops on window to Puget Sound

Take the road less traveled, Beth

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Seagull on the Sound

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Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight – how to get from shore to food and back again.

~Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Gull

Seagull contortions

Seagull preening

Seagull preening

Seagull preening

Seagull preening

Seagull contortions

Seagull

Big flap

Seagull soars

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Ferry over Puget Sound

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I never get tired of riding the ferry. It is one of the things that makes Seattle and Puget Sound so unique, and I love that! Last weekend we rode the MV Hyak, built in 1967, from Bremerton to Seattle.

Washington State ferry

Puget Sound ferry

The Washington State ferry system has its origins in the “Mosquito Fleet,”a collection of small steamer lines serving the Puget Sound area during the later part of the nineteenth century and early part of the 20th century. By the beginning of the 1930s, two lines remained: the Puget Sound Navigation Company (known as the Black Ball) Line and Kitsap County Transportation Company.

Aboard the ferry

A strike in 1935 forced the KCTC to close, leaving only the Black Ball Line. Toward the end of the 1940s the Black Ball Line wanted to increase its fares, to compensate for increased wage demands from the ferry worker unions, but the state refused to allow this, and so the Black Ball Line shut down. In 1951, the state bought nearly all of Black Ball’s ferry assets for $5 million (Black Ball retained five vessels of its fleet). The state intended to run ferry service only until cross-sound bridges could be built, but these were never approved, and the Washington State Department of Transportation runs the system to this day.

Sailboat through the ferry window

As of 2015, there are 24 ferries on Puget Sound operated by the state. The largest vessels in this fleet carry up to 2500 passengers and 202 vehicles. They are painted in a distinctive white and green trim paint scheme, and feature double-ended open vehicle decks and bridges at each end so that they do not need to turn around.

Ferry seats and window

There are 10 routes serving 20 terminals located on Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands, designated as part of the state highway system (hence WSDOT, Washington State Department of Transportation). The agency maintains the largest fleet of ferries in U.S. at 24 vessels, carrying 23 million passengers in 2014. As of 2014, it was the largest ferry operator in the United States, and the fourth-largest ferry system in the world.

On the deck

Stairs on the ferry

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I love to ride the Seattle ferry

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I have never been aboard a steamer

I am just content to be a dreamer

Even if I could afford a steamer

I will take the ferry boat every time

~Andrews Sisters, Ferry Boat Serenade

Riding the Seattle ferryFerry on Puget Sound from Bremerton to Seattle

 

Riding on the ferry over Puget Sound

Inside the Seattle ferry.

Riding on the ferry

Seattle skyline from the Seattle ferry on Puget Sound

Me and the little one on the Seattle ferry

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Life could be a dream: Puget Sound in the sunlight

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I held my hand over my forehead to shield my eyes from the intense sunlight. Sunlight! And then I saw them, like mythical creatures walking on water. Paddleboarders.

Where was I? Hawaii?

I shook my head in disbelief. I was looking out over the water toward my very own Puget Sound.

Life could be a dream.

Paddleboarders on Puget Sound

Paddleboarders on Puget Sound in the light

Paddleboarders at sunset

Oh, life could be a dream (sh-boom)
If I could take you up in paradise up above (sh-boom)

~The Crewcuts

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A lot to discover at Discovery Park

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Seattle sits perfectly juxtaposed between mountain and sea, with Puget Sound weaving itself between the two.  Discovery Park captures a bit of it all. The water, the mountains, and forest paths all in one spectacular setting.

Light house at Discovery ParkLighthouse at Discovery Park

Light house window, Discovery ParkLighthouse window

Shore birds, Discovery ParkShore birds

Puget SoundPuget Sound

Pink tutu and frizbeePink tutu and frisbee

Discovery Park Military QuartersMilitary living quarters

Paddling in Puget Sound, kayakPaddling in Puget Sound

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