North Cascades

I knew ahead of time (from Google and countless blog posts and articles) what this view of Lake Diablo would look like, but that didn’t stop be from getting physically winded as soon as our car rumbled to a stop at this famous lookout. There is something surreal and heady about seeing waters this brilliant from this high up. Making a mental note to come back and see it in fall/winter mist and gloom someday.

Scenes from the Road

Being on a road trip means infinite opportunities to get a moody out-the-window shot of scenery passing by. My boyfriend took these photos a couple weeks ago while I drove us part of the way home from the Cascades in his V8 Mustang. I processed them afterward to look how the trip felt: hazy and expansive and dripping in syrupy gold light.

On Lake Crescent

The view departing from the dock.

At the start of the summer - mercifully before the worst of this year’s sweltering Seattle heat - my boyfriend and I took a weekend mini-cation up to Lake Crescent and stayed at the foot of Storm King. He took his bike up into the mountains one morning, and I impulse-boarded an hour-long boat tour to see this deep, glacial lake from angles I’d never been able to access before.

Ripples on a glassy surface, with a tiny tiny Lake Crescent Lodge in the distance.

This long exposure took me half a dozen tries to get exactly right.