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Amitah
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On a mission to share beauty in #photography #art and #life.

#photographer #writer #designer #entrepreneur + #kayaker living in the #PNW. #Nature lover.

All photos are mine, unless shared or otherwise attributed. Please respect everyone’s copyright.
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This is a frequent mode of transportation in western #Washington for people who live on one of our many islands, the Olympic Peninsula, and along populated shorelines. I forget how special ferry rides are, until visiting friends get excited to experience it themselves.

#PNW #photography #boating
A white, 4-level ferry boat loaded with vehicles on the bottom deck and 2 passenger seating area decks above sails through a saltwater passage on its way to San Juan Island. The water is calm and blue, as is the sky. Ahead of the ferry is an evergreen tree covered island.
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Home on the harbor. Autumn 2025.
Port Ludlow, #Washington

#landscape #photography #garden #clouds #PNW #flowers #BloomScrolling #WestCoastKin
White painted columns and worn gray floor boards make up a front porch facing a bay and marina, both unseen except in slivers of water and the masts of sailboats rising over a verdant, floral garden filling the narrow patch between the porch and a low, decorative fence. The sky is partly cloudy with a bright blue sky peeking out. The sun has lit up the garden from above.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Slicing leeks and was suddenly mesmerized by how beautiful they are.

Mother Nature is the original artist.

#photography #cooking #art #nature #pattern #design
Close up photo of sliced leek rings on a pale brown and marked up bamboo cutting board glow in shades of light and dark green to white as they radiate out like tree rings.
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Okanogan Range, #Washington

#PNW #photography #nature #landscapephotography #mountains
Photo taken from a granite overlook of a mountain valley and the rising peaks of the Okanogan mountain range in Washington state. An expanse of smooth granite rock is under foot. To the left is a twisted, gray tree trunk lying across the stone slab. In the foreground are 5 evergreen trees at the edge of the rock ledge, one is bare and dead.The granite mountains in the distance are covered in patches of evergreen trees. The sky is a brilliant blue peeking from behind fluffy white clouds on a partly sunny day.
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Beachy evening at #sunset.

Coronado Beach, San Diego, #California

#photography #beach #nature
Six people stand in silhouette on a beach at sunset. One person appears to be taking a photo while others are looking out to sea as the sun sets behind distant hills. A person is seated on the steps of a lifeguard tower while another leans against the platform. The sky is a deep orange with a few thin clouds.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Happy birthday Sierra!
Black, orange, and white tortoise kitten with blue eyes lays on her back in a fluffy white furry bed with her feet in the air.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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I love unusual old doors. 🚪

Port Townsend, #Washington

#photography #texture #art #architecture #design #handmade
An old door made out of what appears to be uneven sheets of aging copper layered over each other in a patchwork design, covering a large entry door. There’s a small, narrow slot at the top with a smaller, privacy door covering it. There are three large metal straps stretching across the front of the door where the hinges are. And there’s a large iron latch and door pull on the left. The door is surrounded by old red brick and worn railroad ties creating the frame. What stands out is the shiny silver metal threshold that looks brand new.
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Caught in a sudden rainstorm.

Port Gamble, #Washington

#photography #PNW #rain #LandscapePhotography #TribalLand #rain #nature
Raindrops fall against an evening sun break after a storm. The gray skies begin to part, letting the sun break through and cast bright sunlight on a bay surrounded by forested hills. You are standing on a wet gravel path flanked on both sides by tall grasses. On the left, standing in silhouette, is a tall, wooden totem pole.
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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#Nature always finds a way.

#photography #mushrooms #forest #plantlife #autumn #PNW #Washington
A cluster of small, pale brown mushrooms emerges through spilts in a weathered, damp railroad tie that’s dotted with moss and lichen.
October 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Coronado Beach at The Del. Hanging out with a friend at dusk.

The cool sand felt so nice to walk barefoot through.

#photography #California #beach #WestCoast #SanDiego
A deep dark blue sky at dusk on a white sand beach. Volleyball nets set up on the left and a lifeguard station on the right, which mimics the turret roofline of the Hotel Del Coronado (San Diego), unseen behind the shot. Two human shadows are cast across the rippling sand.
October 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Final harvest. Guess I’ll be making some fried green tomatoes this week.

#photography #flowers #BloomScrolling #gardening #art #cooking #stilllife
Photo of a collection of pink and orange dahlias collected in a basket. Beside them is a black tray of various types of homegrown tomatoes, still bright green. Resting on a black, wire drain rack over a sink filled with soapy water are a smaller collection of ripe red beefsteak and yellow cherry tomatoes. In the far left corner sits a small cup of unfiltered sake.
October 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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My #dahlias are still blooming, despite the cooler temps.

#BloomScrolling #flowers #gardening #photography #PNW #Washington #nature #beauty
A bubblegum pink dahlia bloom fills the frame. The center of the flower is still unfurling its petals.
September 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Unruly tomatoes. One is clearly a nonconformist.

#photography #gardening #cooking #art #beauty #nature #bedifferent
Six tomatoes are placed on a table in the outdoor sun. Four of them are small, yellow cherry tomatoes in the foreground. Behind them and say red, ripe Campari tomato and a larger beef steak tomato that doesn’t look like it knows what it’s doing because it’s a flaming ripe red, ripening orange, and unripe green in 3 segments of the same tomato.
September 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Some #beauty to slow your #doomscroll. #BloomScrolling

Late summer #flowers. 🥀

#photography #beauty #botanical #garden #gardening #PNW #Washington #nature #Cascadia
A dark coral and pale yellow petaled dahlia flower fills the frame. It is set above its deep green leaves and tall stems. The white flower clusters of a hydrangea are aging at the summer’s end with a pale pink blush dusted over some of the delicate flowers. In the near background are the bright green leaves of the hydrangea bush, set against a black metal and wire railing. A once blue hydrangea flower cluster has aged into deep violet and fading green petals surrounded by dark green, serrated leaves and reddish brown stems.
September 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Who’s up for a #sunset paddle?

#Washington #PNW #kayaking #boating #photography #outdoorphotography
The silhouette of a kayaker paddling his boat across an expanse of the Salish Sea of northwestern Washington. The water is golden and sparkling from the setting sun. There’s a fishing boat in the distance. On the horizon the outlines of island fade to gray.
September 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Beach drama. ✨

#Washington #coast #beach #PNW #photography #nature #beauty #clouds
Pacific coast, Washington beach at midday. Heavy gray clouds hover low over a quiet gray beach where the silver waves gently lap ashore. The dark beach sands meet the glittering water’s edge.
September 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Vanishing point.

Beach sand along the #Washington Pacific coast.

#photography #PNW #beach #texture #nature #art #design
A close-up stretch of gray sand rippling into mini waves, made more pronounced by the play of light and shadows.
September 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Good evening to be in a hammock.

#photography #clouds #nature #PNW #Washington #skies
Lines of white clouds streak across a deep blue sky. The clouds look like partially open window blinds revealing a sunny summer’s day.
August 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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My tomatoes will fight your tomatoes.

#gardening #veggies #photography #harvest #cooking #food
Various homegrown tomatoes are scattered on a stone countertop. There are yellow cherry tomatoes in a pale blue ceramic colander. Round red tomatoes are in a bowl in back. In front and on a stack of white plates are 3 large and gnarly looking beefsteak tomatoes. Their shapes are comically bulging like balloons wrapped with rubber bands.
August 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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I love this peony. It’s showy in the summer with big, ruby red blooms, and as it begins its fall dormancy the branches and leaves turn dark red. By the time that happens, the trailing lobelia bursts through lower branches!

#gardening #BloomScrolling #flowers #peonies #photography #Washington #PNW
The post-bloom leaves and branches of a scarlet peony bush in a gray pot has now turned crimson and are surrounded by a ‘skirt’ of trailing purple lobelia. The deck it’s sitting on is gray and there is black metal and wire railing behind the large pot. A green leafy rhododendron bush rises behind the deck railing. Scarlet peony shrub with dark green leaves in a gray pot on a gray deck with a metal and wire railing behind it, and purple flowering and pink flowering rhododendron bushes and behind the railing.
August 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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North Cascades at lower Diablo Lake, power lines and tree stumps surrounded by aqua blue waters and evergreen trees blanketing granite mountainsides.

#Washington #PNW #photography #nature #landscape #mountains #travel
A shallow blue-green lake in the mountains is dotted with broken and sawed off tree trunks that are standing on sand bars, which barely break the surface of the water in some spots. The mountains line the water’s edges. They are covered in dark green evergreen trees. The sky is bright blue with wispy white clouds streaking across. Thin power lines appear overhead and run as far as the eye can see, disappearing into the distant mountain valley.
August 13, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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As their colors fade and change, late summer #hydrangea blooms are #nature ’s #art.

You end up with this beautiful pastel palette. 🩷💜🩵💚

#flowers #BloomScrolling #gardening #photography #PNW #WesternGardening
Close up shot of clusters of hydrangea blooms, fading from deep pink, to purple, to pale blue - all in the same flower cluster. Dark green, serrated edged leaves surround the blooms.
August 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Coupeville, #Washington on Whidbey Island.

I sat on the pier imagining what I’d do with the worn, old structure on the far left. Looks like it has been through some history.

#travel #photography #seatown #PNW #summer #historicplaces #oysters
A series of tall, saltbox buildings line an island beach, sitting very close to the water’s edge. The closest in view on the right of frame is a 3 floor, mint green structure with white framed windows and a long, narrow balcony off the top floor, overlooking the cove. Beside it on the left is a shorter, 2 toned blue building with a deck of the first floor, overlooking the water. A wine red structure is beside the blue building. It has a slated roofline and oddly few windows overlooking the water. The last building on the beach is farthest left of view and appears to be a very weather worn, gray structure with a high, double peaked roof on either side of a smaller, center peaked roof. The cove waters are aqua blue. The sky is pale blue with a few streaks of white clouds. A bird is flying overhead on the left.
August 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Penn Cove, Coupeville, #Washington
on Whidbey Island.

If you love oysters, this town raises some winners. 🦪

They also host a very nice summer #ArtsFestival. 🎨

#travel #photography #art #PNW #summer
Photo of a long boardwalk disappears into the distance over blue-green saltwater. The pier is pointing towards the village of Coupeville, which can be seen lining the beachfront in the distance across the cove. In the foreground is a green, blue and white striped banner flag rippling in the breeze. The sky is blue with thin, wispy white clouds streaking across the horizon.
August 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Close up of a Dale Chihuly glass #art piece. It looks alive.

#MacroMonday #photography #GlassArt #design #glass
Photograph of the detail of a hand blown glass art platter/bowl by famed US glass artist Dale Chihuly. The glass is a mix of bright green, yellow, orange, and amethyst purple. Lighting beneath the glass makes it glow.
August 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM