We took the advice from the locals about the hot spot for sunset at San Juan Island, that is the Lime Kiln State Park on the west side of the Island. It is the place that if one’s lucky whales could be spotted in the […]
Month: April 2018

Sunrise at San Juan Island, WA
We arrived in San Juan Island by taking ferry from Anacortes to Friday Harbor on April 26. We toured San Juan Island Historical Park- American Camp in the afternoon for the purpose of scouting the best location for sunrise photo shoot. I guess we confirmed […]

More Tulip Photos from Mount Vernon, WA
We toured RoozenGaarde Gardens all day yesterday. It probably has the largest and most beautiful tulip blooming fields and display gardens. The vast blooming fields showed fantastic mixture of colors and the display gardens were designed to show the best of tulip colors in small […]

Tulip Fields at Mount Vernon, Washington State
We started our 12-day Pacific Northwest photo tour by flying across the continent from Washington DC to Seattle, Washington yesterday. Our first stop is Mount Vernon WA, the center of Annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. We toured two incredibly beautiful tulip fields with nice mix […]

April is for Tulips
Tulip blooming are at their peak so I couldn’t resist getting up early this morning to get a few shots. I don’t know why but we are leaving for a Pacific Northwest photo tour tomorrow and our fist stop will be at the Tulip Festival […]

Washington National Arboretum
It was a perfect day for hiking yesterday. We enjoyed going to National Arboretum for walking around and enjoying the spring flowers everywhere. Magnolia blossom is almost over but I like the scenes with petals on the ground.

Daffodils at Brookside Gardens
It was the first day temperature reaches 80 degrees (27 C.) this spring, so I took the advantage to go to Brookside Gardens for shooting some flowers, especially the weeping cherry and daffodils. I was surprised to see even some tulips are blooming.

Cherry Blossom at Tidal Basin, Washington, DC
Despite the cold temperature and big crowd I made to Tidal Basin last Sunday to see the cherry blossom in peak conditions. Here are some of the photos I took.

Golden Waterfalls at Jinguashi near Taipei, Taiwan
Golden Waterfalls (黃金瀑布) is located in Jinguashi (金瓜石) near the famous old town of Juifen (九份). Although real gold flowing from these falls would be too good to be true, the water is certainly a beautiful gold color as a result of the combination of […]

Magnolia
The blooming of magnolia usually precedes the cherry blossom by about a week here in Washington, DC and the best place to go is the National Arboretum. I took most of these photos over there in the past few years, though there are a few […]