Kitsap Frames Meegan M. Reid keeps you up-to-date, gives some behind-the-scenes scoops, shares photos from the Kitsap Sun Staff (and readers) and provides you with a few tips to help you take better photos.
Here in the PNW the weather keeps life interesting.
Sure it might rain for 4 months straight but you just better
watch out because Mother Nature might just throw a 70 degree sunny
day in the middle of that 4 month rain stretch just to keep you on
your toes.
Co-photojournalist Larry Steagall and I have a love/hate
relationship with the ever present need for a “weather art” for the
next day’s paper.
Our conversations with our editor usually go something
like this, “Sigh, okay yes there are umbrellas outside
because it is of course raining but we’ve already ran 5 umbrella
shots this week… ” Or, “Alright I’ll hit every park and beach in
the county AGAIN today to illustrate this so-called
warm-weather you speak of I mean it’s only 50 degrees out right now
but yeah I’m sure someone will be sunbathing at 10 am…”
And yes while we drag our feet, grumble and occasionally roll
our eyes , we do love them deep down inside because weather art is
always good art, the hunt for that photo is always fulfilling and
people love the weather- I mean it is the first thing my parent’s
talk about when they call me from Michigan and I’m assuming that my
parents aren’t the only weather junkies out there.
Oh and let’s not forget storms! Storms of course give us great
visuals from flooding to trees down to the ever present rainbow
after the storm.
Okay enough rambling, your challenge this month, if you choose
to except it of course, is to show me your best weather shot.
Be it an umbrella toting person, a sunbather, a tree down with
power crews working among the lines – if the image tells the story
about the weather at that moment/day well that is a challenge entry
right there.
And don’t forget to think about the details ( galoshes,
sunscreen, sunglasses, puddles, umbrellas of course, inner tubes,
beach blankets, flip flops etc etc. ) as well as the overall scene
of the image. Does that make sense?
Sure this challenge is open to interpretation and all “out of
the box” creative interpretations and execution of images is always
encouraged.
You can email your entries to mreid@kitsapsun.com or use the
handy Upload Photo Challenge Pix link at the right side of
this page. Please make sure your real life name is somewhere in the
upload fields or in your email to me.
Remember, I ENCOURAGE you to shoot the photo in the week that
the challenge is assigned but of course will begrudgingly accept
photos taken earlier this year.
Deadline for photos will be Monday, May
2nd.
Those chosen as “Stand-outs” will be published in the Kitsap Sun
on the following Sunday.
Here are a few photographs telling the story of
“weather” from our archives to get you thinking:
Kaseem Bell, 11, floats in
Wildcat Lake on a sunny and warm Monday, July 28, 2014. (MEEGAN M.
REID / KITSAP SUN)Audina Michaud, 2, carries a
bucket of water back to the shore for sand castle construction at
Kitsap Lake Park in Bremerton on Monday, July 1, 2013. (MEEGAN M.
REID / KITSAP SUN)Nathan Thompson, 16, and Thor
Breitbarth, 16, dive into the water from the dock at Oyster Plant
Park in Poulsbo, Wash. on a sunny and warm Tuesday, April 29, 2014.
(MEEGAN M. REID /KITSAP SUN)A rainbow streaks across the
sky as the Washington State Ferry M/V Spokane heads to Seattle from
Bremerton on a stormy Saturday, March 12, 2016. (MEEGAN M. REID /
KITSAP SUN)While wearing a festive pumpkin
hat, Lillian Manuguid, 1, splashes in a mud puddle while cheering
on the Kingston Cross Country team with her mother Karla during the
Westside Classic Cross Country Championships at American Lake Golf
Course in Lakewood, Wash. on Saturday, October 31, 2015. (MEEGAN M.
REID / KITSAP SUN)A flock of ducks take flight as
Ari Toman, 3, runs in their direction while enjoying a rainy
afternoon at Lions Park in Bremerton, Wash. with his family on
Tuesday, January 19, 2016. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP
SUN)Lt. Doug Weller, of South
Kitsap Fire and Rescue, ducks underneath a large tree that had
fallen and was leaning precariously on power and cable lines on F
Street in Bremerton on Thursday, November 6, 2014. (MEEGAN M. REID
/ KITSAP SUN)The view through a rain soaked
windshield causes a painterly effect as a pedestrian with an
umbrella walks along Pacific Avenue in Bremerton, Wash. on Monday,
November 19, 2012. (AP Photo/ Kitsap Sun, Meegan M.
Reid)Sycamore Tree Preschool
students and chaperones walk through Evergreen Rotary Park in
Bremerton as they celebrate the last day of school with a field
trip on a rainy Wednesday afternoon. MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP
SUNThe 11:25 am Seattle to
Bainbridge ferry passes near the end of a rainbow as it heads to
Eagle Harbor on Sunday, December 11, 2011. MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP
SUNA trio of pedestrians carry
umbrellas as they walk along the Clear Creek Trail in Silverdale on
Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)Bill Christman bails out the
floor of his car with a drink cup while parked in Poulsbo’s
Anderson Parkway on Saturday, October 10, 2015. Christman was on
break from work when he parked in the lot to take a nap, when he
awoke and opened the door water rushed in from the flooded lot.
(MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)Juanito Dedios strolls past the
mural on 4th Street in downtown Bremerton on a rainy Tuesday,
December 8, 2015. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)Kim Demko leads the way down
the muddy path followed closely behind by her dog Bella (center)
and Kyah , who belongs to fellow park regular Marty Burkhart, at
Bremerton’s Bark Park on Friday, January 22, 2016. (MEEGAN M. REID
/ KITSAP SUN)With a chain of daisies on her
head, Catalina Gracier, 4, spins around while enjoying a nice day
at Evergreen Rotary Park in Bremerton on Tuesday, March 22, 2016.
The daisy chain was made by Juliana Guyt, 19, who was approached by
the curious youngster as she sat among the flowers linking them
together. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)Flowers are refracted in the
raindrops collecting on the stem of another plant in Blueberry Park
in Bremerton, WA on Monday, September 27, 2010. (Meegan M. Reid /
Kitsap Sun)