scarlettina | Pictures: ANA, Zoo and Hiram Chittenden Locks

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The last comes first: I had errands to run in Ballard today, so I decided to stop at the locks to enjoy the sunshine and to see which salmon were running the salmon ladder. Today's fish? Chinook salmon three feet long, fat and sassy. As it happened, the fish were extremely active. Not only was the salmon ladder full of fish anxious to get upstream, but out in the bay, the salmon were literally leaping out of the water. I've never seen such activity before. I also learned that if salmon are missing the tiny fin that grows immediately above their tail, they are hatchery salmon, not wild. I saw only two wild salmon in the ladders, not a happy phenomenon.

I also stopped and took some pictures of the flowers in the gardens around the locks. You can see the whole set, fish and flowers, here.

I posted my meager few pix from the Cougar Mountain zoo here.

And you can see pictures of the people I met and the coins I brought home from the ANA show here.

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akirlu.livejournal.com

Wow, love the salmon pix, both color and composition. Were you using any kind of filtering to get that green?

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scarlettina.livejournal.com

Nope. That's the result of shooting through glass into the salmon ladder. I sat there for quite a while shooting the fish and the only real work I did adjusting these was lightening them up a bit, painting out scratches in the window glass, and compensating for perspective skew. There are more than just those two, but I didn't really have time this afternoon to do more than those two. Hope to do a couple more just for fun and for practice on the tool over the weekend.

Edited Date: Sat, Aug. 16th, 2008 03:13 am (UTC)