Beacon Hill, Deer, and Mud – A Saturday in Hoquiam

Saturday evening in Hoquiam, Wash., I visited my haunt beneath Simpson Avenue Bridge.

I've been there quite frequently over the past few weeks, as the weather has been turning nice, and shared a couple photography posts already (The Family and Flags and a nice smile). For all my recent photo outings, I have used my 75-300mm zoom lens, but this week I switched to the 18-50mm, in order to get some wide angle shots.

My focus for the evening was primarily the golden hour light on Beacon Hill along with the Polson Musuem (the brown building with the flagpole) and row of colorful residential homes at the foot of the hill along Riverside Drive. It's a view worthy of a postcard, I think, though I can't say that I've captured the postcard shot yet.

The bridge loomed large over the locale, as always, and caught the golden light too.

There is a path along the riverbank that I use to travel beneath the bridge; I've always thought it might be a deer path. That theory was confirmed Saturday, as I startled a few deer making their way around the riverbend on the path. They took a shortcut up the bank into the railyard to avoid me.

I ended the shoot (at least under the bridge; I continued along the Hoquiam River Loop, though I lost the light for that walk) and I'll end this post with a couple shots of the mudflat and the grassy riverbank. I love the tall grass here, as well as the way the tide has cut into the riverbank. It's a source of many, many photos to come, I'm sure.

Like I am with Beacon Hill as seen from this location, I'm still hunting for the best way to photograph the grass and that little outcropping of muddy bank.

Till next time ... thanks for viewing!

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