Amanda Ray

A smartphone captures a brilliant image of the sun peeking through an arch at Shi Shi Beach on the Olympic Peninsula, with a lovely cloud pattern and reflections.

This lovely photo from Cannon Beach captures playful beachgoer movement and graceful birds in flight, plus mist along the shore, which can be pretty tough to do.

A Bellevue photographer captures a marvelous moment of detail — and the intensity of nature — in his own backyard as two tiny hummingbirds tangle over one feeder.

It can be a tricky task to stay calm and quiet for a surprising moment in nature, but this photographer found a connection with a small frog and created a lovely image.

The strawberry moon can be an exciting time to explore astrophotography. The glowing light illuminating from the moon allows us to see more detail of the landscape.

Nature photography can be difficult, especially when you spot a creature as tiny as an insect climbing its way up a plant. But this captures beautiful contrast.

A photographer on Bainbridge Island created a pleasantly distracting abstraction from a collection of maple seeds by assembling them into a flight formation.