If you live across the Puget Sound from Seattle, chances are you know that the ferry schedule runs your life. You leave concerts early to catch the 10:50 (or suffer the wrath of waiting for the next boat, the 12:15), and when you need to get out of a conversation you say “sorry, I need to catch the boat” - to which the person you are speaking with, as long as they are also familiar with ferry life, stops everything and says “go go go we’ll talk later.” Love it, hate it, fight it, or embrace it, it’s a necessary and fabulous factor of peninsula or island life - you are at the whim of the Washington State Ferries.
I should know better, therefore, to count on a photoshoot sailing occurring exactly when I wanted it to, at golden hour, planned and timed perfectly, especially on a weekend. As Meesh and Alex and I waited in the terminal, I watched my precious light slip slowly behind the horizon - a late boat. We scampered up to the top deck to catch the last fleeting glows of hazy warm sunlight as the boat began it’s trek to Bainbridge Island, but we were soon blanketed in blue light. What’s this? This wasn’t the plan….but it looks….absolutely fantastic. Have you really appreciated these amber marine lights, how they bounce off the white steel they cut through that classic Pacific Northwest dusky blue?
Meesh and Alex were delightfully giggly but also perfectly poised for the twilight spooky that quickly descended upon us. These two extended their first date (the Seattle Aquarium, a classic) by spontaneously hopping the same ferry to Bainbridge, and the sweetness of that full circle story seeps into these photos. I am so stoked for them, and so pleased that they asked me to sail into the sunset I mean navy blue darkness with them.
