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Relive the glory of summer in Spokane with collection of best reader photos from 2018

In September, Craig Goodwin took a complicated selfie from one of his favorite spots to watch sunsets from the Spokane River. “I have this local spot on the Spokane River that I regularly visit for sunsets,” Goodwin said in an email. “I recently wondered what it would be like to include myself in the magical reflections I have grown to love so much. Last week I paddled out and took this photo. I programmed the intervalometer to open the shutter every 10 seconds, while I was in the kayak, and composed myself in the shot for what amounts to a very complicated selfie.” (Craig Goodwin / Courtesy)
By Eli Francovich elif@spokesman.com(509) 459-5508

If the chill in the air and the early darkness didn’t tip you off, the calendar surely should have.

Summer is gone.

Friday was the last full day of the 2018 summer season. For the dedicated sportsperson, the changing of the seasons isn’t a mournful event. Instead, it brings its own anticipation as shorts are traded for hiking pants, hunters head to the hills, photographers search for changing colors, climbers head to the gym or start sharpening ice tools and skiers desperately try to get in shape.

Still, it’s good to mark the change. Here you will find some of the best reader-submitted photos from the summer of 2018.

In September, Craig Goodwin took a complicated selfie from one of his favorite spots to watch sunsets on the Spokane River.

“I recently wondered what it would be like to include myself in the magical reflections I have grown to love so much,” Goodwin said in an email. “Last week I paddled out and took this photo. I programmed the intervalometer to open the shutter every 10 seconds, while I was in the kayak, and composed myself in the shot for what amounts to a very complicated selfie.”

A bull moose wanders through Turnbull Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 17. Buck Domitrovich captured this image. Moose typically mate between late September and mid-October. During this time - known as the rut - bull moose descend from higher, cooler elevations, looking to mate. (Buck Domitrovich / Courtesy)
A bull moose wanders through Turnbull Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 17. Buck Domitrovich captured this image. Moose typically mate between late September and mid-October. During this time - known as the rut - bull moose descend from higher, cooler elevations, looking to mate. (Buck Domitrovich / Courtesy)

Also in September, Buck Domitrovich spotted a bull moose wandering through Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. The picture illustrated the annual migration of male moose from higher elevations to lower climes.

Jerry Rolwes captured this photo of a reclusive Virginia Rail feeding at Turnbull Refuge on August 25. (Jerry Rolwes / Courtesy)
Jerry Rolwes captured this photo of a reclusive Virginia Rail feeding at Turnbull Refuge on August 25. (Jerry Rolwes / Courtesy)

And Jerry Rolwes captured a cool shot of a reclusive Virginia rail. Virginia rails are “seldom seen but often heard,” according to the Audubon society.

Photographer Joanie Christian’s husband relaxes in Little Pend Oreille Lakes in Stevens County. Her husband, Jim, had just broken his reel and he was relaxing and taking in the view. (Joanie Christian / Courtesy)
Photographer Joanie Christian’s husband relaxes in Little Pend Oreille Lakes in Stevens County. Her husband, Jim, had just broken his reel and he was relaxing and taking in the view. (Joanie Christian / Courtesy)

Late in August, Joanie Christian caught her husband relaxing in the Little Pend Oreille Lakes. He’d just broken his fishing reel and decided to just take in the view.

Lee Prouty captured this photo of a pine cone bursting open after the heat of a fire on July 27, 2018. (Lee Prouty / Courtesy)
Lee Prouty captured this photo of a pine cone bursting open after the heat of a fire on July 27, 2018. (Lee Prouty / Courtesy)

In July, Lee Prouty took a stunning photo of a pine cone burned by the Upriver Beacon fire in the Beacon Hill area. Prouty, who loves Beacon Hill, was encouraged to see some beauty come out of the destruction.

A boy flies through the air above Fish Lake while his friends watch from below. Photographer Melaine Williams captured this quintessential summer shot during the first weekend of July. (Melaine Williams / Courtesy)
A boy flies through the air above Fish Lake while his friends watch from below. Photographer Melaine Williams captured this quintessential summer shot during the first weekend of July. (Melaine Williams / Courtesy)

Also in July, Melanie Williams took a quintessential summer photo of a boy flying through the air from a rope swing above Fish Lake. As the weather turns cold, this photo will remind us all of the joys of summer.

Nick Sweeney, Kyle Tarry, and Zach Turner witnessed a massive avalanche while climbing Mt Rainier’s Liberty Ridge. (Kyle Tarry / Courtesy)
Nick Sweeney, Kyle Tarry, and Zach Turner witnessed a massive avalanche while climbing Mt Rainier’s Liberty Ridge. (Kyle Tarry / Courtesy)

In June, Kyle Tarry took a scary (yet beautiful) photo of an avalanche sloughing off the slopes of Mount Rainier.

Tiffany Hansen captured a barn basking in the beauty of the northern lights on April 19 on the Rathdrum Prairie. (Tiffany Hansen / Courtesy)
Tiffany Hansen captured a barn basking in the beauty of the northern lights on April 19 on the Rathdrum Prairie. (Tiffany Hansen / Courtesy)

In May, Tiffany Hanson captured the ephemeral beauty of the Northern Lights above the Rathdrum prairie. Hanson said she’d been planning the shot for a “couple of years.”