What is Earth Day all about?
We live on a cool planet.
Mount Rainier
It’s beautiful.
Point of the Arches
There are mountains.
Colchuck Lake, Enchantments
Oceans.
Washington Park, Anacortes
Rivers.
Bridge over Skagit River
Flowers.
Skagit Tulips
Meadows.
Pacific Crest Trail, Pasayten Wilderness
Animals.
Deer at Cascade Pass
People.
Atop Maple Pass
and LOTS more.
Park Butte Lookout
Lets try harder to not fuck it up!
Snow Geese on Fir Island, Skagit Valley
Skagit Valley
Spider Meadows
I went to the tulip and daffodil fields often this year.
Daffodils, Morning Light
Eighteen times to be precise.
Yellow Tulips and a Smile
A new record for visits in one year.
Backlighting, my favorite
The Daffodils started in February.
Stars!
As of today, April 17, the tulips are done.
Beheading
Finished, kaput.
Pink River
Maximus
I am not sorry, I’m relieved.
Tulip Selfie
My Tulip Goal for this year was two-fold: to get an image of a huge double rainbow directly over the blazing tulip fields AND to somehow capture an image of dark skies over the tulips being ripped asunder by searing bolts of lightning.
Converging
The Barn
Mud
Pinks
I failed miserably on both of these counts.
MUD!
All of these image, and many more, are for sale as fine art prints as well as Canvas Wrapped Prints. Here is the place to view and buy!
Love the back lit scene
Reflection
Water in the rows
Loner
Isolation Lake is the first or last lake you visit on your trip into the Enchantment Basin, depending upon which direction you are hiking the loop.
Campers along Isolation’s shore
If you managed to hike up Aasgard Pass (more than 2,000 ft. elevation gain in less that a mile) than its your first.
Camped at Isolation Lake, Enchantments, Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Isolation Lake Panorama
If took the long route past Snowy Lake, then Isolation will be your last lake in the high country before heading down and out.
But either way, its a fantastic place.
Isolation Lake
High above timber line it is a world of rocks and ice.
Isolation Lake, Enchantments
Blue, gray and white are the colors here.
The air is crisp, sharp, clean.
A meadow is nearby with a small copse of larch hiding the toilet.
Isolation Lake
Sunset brings new colors, reds and orange, magenta and violet.
Isolation Lake
Later the stars appear.
Prints are available here!
Camped at Isolation
Dome in a moon scape
Isolation is a world of wonder.
Last night I was out conducting a photo tour of the tulip fields and encountered this lovely lady with a very photogenic umbrella. The conditions were favorable for a very nice image.
Stormy Skies, Sun ad an Umbrella
North Western Images - photos by Andy Porter 