Dave's Best and Favorite Pics!

All photos taken by me.   (Just thought I 'd throw that in)  : )

The day after Christmas, 1996, Seattle was awakened by 9-inches of snow!
With a free day off, I went for a walk and snapped a roll of film.
This is Volunteer Park, on Seattle's Capitol Hill.   Brrrrrr...

Back in 1991, a college buddy and I went out to snap pictures of scenery at Moscow Mountain,
near Pullman, WA. Well, we just weren't finding what we were looking for, so as the sun began
to set, we decided to give up and head home. We got down the road about a mile, turned right
and about 10 seconds later, we both looked over to the right and saw this. Neither of us said a
word, because we both knew that this had to be photographed. I slammed on the brakes and
pulled off to the shoulder of the road. At the same time, my buddy was grabbing our cameras
from the back seat. I didn't have my tripod, so just sat the camera on the roof of my car
and held it as steady as I could. I believe this was about a 1-2 second exposure.
I was surprised it turned out. Talk about serendipity!

So I'm on a ferry boat a few years ago. I'm a little upset because it's foggy, which means
I'm not going to get stunning views of Puget Sound. So foggy, I couldn't see anything else within
about 1/2 mile of the boat. Wait...what's that? Another ferry! It looked nice against that wall of
fog -- just ferry, water and fog. Nice.

Over many years, I've made a study of sunsets captured over the trees in the back yard at my
Mom's house. This is one of the more stunning examples. This was taken in November, 2002.
(As you can see, this one is not edited to remove the neighbor's chimney, at lower right...)

                         
A couple of nice views of the Golden Gate Bridge, taken from a boat.
(South end on the left; North end on the right)

Standing at the base of a ferris wheel, looking up at the Space Needle.
Lots of circles in this picture.

More postcard quality than artistic, but still gosh-darn purty. This is downtown Seattle as seen
from the Space Needle. Notice the ferry just starting its run.

Seattle: The Golden City.
Another view of downtown Seattle taken from the Space Needle -- but, this time at sunset.

On a road trip through California, in 2003, I found this interesting tree at, of all places,
a freeway rest area. This is just east of Santa Barbara.

Well, that's it for now. To ensure you don't miss any new pics, be sure to check back every 5 minutes! Yeah, that's it.

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