Discovery trip

Night before last, I had the pleasure of heading down to Discovery Park for evening/sunset. I wanted to take advantage of the calm conditions - Discovery Park can get quite breezy on summer evenings, I've found, making plant or flower foregrounds challenging. But for whatever reason, the weather pattern on Tuesday had produced a very calm evening, and I knew from forecasts that Wednesday was likely to be similar.

We'll start with the best image of the night, some dandelion seeds framed against the sunset. F/3.5. Waiting until just before the sun dipped below the horizon (well, the Olympic Peninsula) resulted in the rich yellow color.

And below is some yarrow with Puget Sound in the background. Why are the yarrow in some parts of Discovery Park so deeply pink, when they are white to whitish pink everywhere else? The ongoing mystery continues. F/18 to preserve some shape in the green bush in the background, as well as to clarify the outline of the Sound.