Puget Sound

What beautiful locations on Puget Sound would you recommend for mid-June landscape photography?
I'll be based in Lacey, south of Seattle for 1 week.

Discovery Park is good, nice views of the Olympics.

If you think you've got the skill, take a ferry to Bainbridge Island around sunset. You can get the Seattle waterfront, West Seattle, and the Olympics from the deck of the Seattle-Bainbridge ferry. It's about six bucks, but you only have to pay one way.

bishop1 said:

What beautiful locations on Puget Sound would you recommend for
mid-June landscape photography?
I'll be based in Lacey, south of Seattle for 1 week.

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Bishop1

Here are some sites to check out for a list of my favorite places very near Lacey that are beautiful and will give you some great choices for pics.

Nisqually Wildlife Refuge
http://www.fws.gov/nisqually/

Vashon Island, the ferry leaves from Tacoma
http://www.vashonchamber.com/

Key Peninsula is georgeous, go all the way to the end.
http://www.visitkitsap.com/cities.asp?ID=50

Gig Harbor, across the Narrows Bridge from Tacoma
http://gigharbor.com/

Olymipia, Lacey and Tumwater have a lot to offer. The Olympia waterfront is great.
http://www.visitolympia.com/

Have fun!
Steve-Seattle

Gasworks park, just north of Seattle and across Lake Union is usually a fun place to take pictures as it provides a decent view of the Seattle skyline. The park itself also provides some interesting photographic opportunities.

If you've really got alot of time and some extra money, have someone take you (by boat) to Sucia Island, which is a small island in the north part of the Puget Sound. I spent a few days there on a kayaking trip and got one of the most beautiful sunset shots I've ever seen. http://flickr.com/photos/neverhood311/

And I guess you can be cliche and go take pictures of the Space Needle, Mt. Ranier, and such. You can get an excellent view of Seattle from atop the Space Needle although it'll cost you roughly $14 for the elevator ride.

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-Justin

Of course, all these replies are assuming that it won't be raining. With Seattle, that's never a good assumption.

Carnildo said:

Of course, all these replies are assuming that it won't be raining.
With Seattle, that's never a good assumption.

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Hey, be fair! Seattle does get its share of rain, but most of late Spring and nearly all of Summer is beautiful and sunny. It gets fairly warm, too. I've lived here all my life (19 years) and I couldn't imagine a better place to spend the rest of my life.

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-Justin

http://flickr.com/photos/neverhood311/

Neverhood311 said:

Carnildo said:

Of course, all these replies are assuming that it won't be raining.
With Seattle, that's never a good assumption.

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Hey, be fair! Seattle does get its share of rain, but most of late
Spring and nearly all of Summer is beautiful and sunny. It gets
fairly warm, too. I've lived here all my life (19 years) and I
couldn't imagine a better place to spend the rest of my life.

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-Justin

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I spent a year at Fort Lewis in the mid 50's

All of my slides were wrecked by fungus in the emulsion caused by the miserable wet weather.
Three months of good weather can't make up for the other bad nine.

If you can get a glimpse of Mt. Rainier that one is not bad if you can catch it at sunrise or sunset. I went out this last Thursday and got this picture with my D80.

http://picasaweb.google.com/StykkInDaMud/MtRainier/photo#5066528635952856562

Have fun in the area!

PatM said:

Three months of good weather can't make up for the other bad nine.

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Because Wisconsin is fair and balmy all year round (sarcasm), LOL. 4 months of winter that is too cold, 4 months of summer that is too hot, which leaves about 4 months of okay weather. One more than WA by your calculations.

Ah ha! I am new to posting here, so i posted the link. Here is the pic of Mt. Rainier:



There we have it.

Wow, that Ranier pic is really nice. Where was it taken from? I live in the Woodinville/Bothell/Redmond area, so all I see is the north side of the mountain.

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-Justin

http://flickr.com/photos/neverhood311/

I live down in Kent, and the picture was taken by lake Meridian, near Covington (about a half a mile from my house). I've driven by the spot so many dang times that I finally brought the camera and took some pics.