Dancing Starfish

 I love this guy.  He is too cute

Barnicles

These creatures create some of the most gorgeous textures on the rocks.

Sky and Ocean

Where does the sky end and the ocean begin?

Pirate Movie Scene

The sky in Washington was so gorgeous.  It gave everything a misty feel/look. 

Seaweed

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Driftwood in The Water

Here is a sweet piece of driftwood.

Ocean Shore

Felicia Follum Art & Design

Driftwood

I am still fascinated by the fact that these pieces of wood can kill people.  They are huge so that part makes sense, but they are huge.  Imagining how much water it would take still amazes me.

Rock Stacks on Ruby Beach

 

I had fun building these guys.  Jim built one too.  I took every other one and soaked it in water to create the dark stones.

The next series of images will be in grayscale.  Many of them will be from the summer.   I want to train my eye to see in black and white and learn to understand the inherent value of colors.  Many of these images will be from the summer.  Of course there will be new ones, but fewer since school has started.

Bells

I went to a flower camp with my mother-in-law a couple summers ago, and since then I always look for wild flowers. It was neat because we identified over 100 flower species in the Rocky Mountains. I didn’t realize how many of the same flowers would also be in the forest in WA state.

My favorite aspect of this photograph is the contrast of color. Not only the green and pink but also the pink and white.

~FF

Lilies

The orange and blue complement each other well. It seems that there are two color combinations going on here complimentary (blue and orange) but also an analogous (blue, yellow and green) color scheme. There is also an interesting mix of warm foreground colors and cool background colors.

This photo also has the Ocean Shores beach town feel. The color of the wood in the background was very common throughout the town. The only thing missing is a couple buoys and sailor statues.

~FF

Mushrooms

These were interesting. It seems like they are designed to catch water or food in the cup on top. It was neat because they were about 3 feet from our tent. I am not sure if they grew over night or if we were just lucky yo not set the tent on top of them.

~FF

Spikey Plant

This plant is another example of the detail that went into creation. Who would have thought to put spikes all over the stem and the leaves? These plant had large pricklies growing out of the tops and bottoms of the leaves where the slugs were found on other plants.

~FF

Spiders

I really like the black and white on the top image.
The shadow on the spider (in the bottom photograph) makes it extra scary to me.

These huge spiders were in the entrance way to a mens bathroom at the campground we stayed at. There were about 9 or 10 spiders in the doorway. I went to the bathroom around 2 in the morning and found these. That is when I decided to take some photographs. It was much more difficult than I expected. It may have been because it was the middle of the night.

~FF

Rock Stacks on Ruby Beach

Here is my version of the traditional (somewhat cliche) smooth rock stacks.
They were all the same value so I soaked every other one to make the dark/light contrast.
~FF

Ruby Beach - Rockscapes

The dark rocks create an interesting contrast with the background.

~FF

Ruby Beach

This beach looked like it was used to film a movie on. It reminds me of landscapes in Hook. The big rectangular rock formations were fascinating.

~FF

Beach # 4 - Anemone Crack

They were all over the place. And this wasn't even low tide.

~FF

Beach # 4 – more starfish

There were so stinking’ many of these creatures. They were everywhere. At one point we counted 22. I really like the way they follow the shape of the cracks on this picture.

~FF

Beach # 4 – anemones

More from the tide pool… It is crazy to me that animals can have colors this bight. There was a community in Lead, SD where one of the rules was that you had to have natural color houses. I always thought it would be funny to have a house that was a bright color just to make a statement (or a scene). Anyways, I think these colors would have worked well.

~FF