well, you couldn't be in a better location for landscape / nature photography if you're willing to travel out of seattle some. seems like there's a lot of great wilderness areas around with olympic national forest & all the national forests to the east.
if you want to practice around seattle try to stay safe and be street smart i guess. if you're from seattle you probably know where it would be a bad idea to pull out an expensive camera while alone already though.
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