Posts in Photography

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Jul 15, 2008
Photography

Guess who was just accepted by PhotoShelter!

I just received word that my application to PhotoShelter, a fantastic stock photography service, was accepted. You can check out my profile to see the four images of mine (out of 10) that were accepted. woo-hoo! Hopefully, my camera equipment will...

Jul 13, 2008
Photography

13th Annual Georgetown Art and Garden Walk

Helen and I went to the 13th Annual Art and Garden Walk this afternoon down in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. We had a blast, especially since Helen picked up a Canon Rebel XTi earlier this week.  She’s adapting pretty well to the camera...

Jul 12, 2008
Photography

Photowalk with Thomas Hawk

As I mentioned before, there was a photowalk starting at Pike’s Place Market in downtown Seattle yesterday. I took a few hundred pictures, and ended up with a handful that I thought were worth putting online. As always, you can find the full set o...

Jul 11, 2008
Photography

Photowalk with Thomas Hawk Tonight

There’s a Photowalk happening tonight in Downtown Seattle with Thomas Hawk. It starts at 6pm next to Rachel the Pig at Pike’s Place Market. (photo by Life As Art from Flickr. Provided under the Creative Commons by-nc-nd license)

Jul 08, 2008
Photography

This one makes me smile

I just found a portfolio website from a gentleman by the name of Mel Yates. He has some absolutely spectacular portraits of Big Hollywood Stars, and then my personal favorite: guy with the serious cat.

Jul 08, 2008
Photography

Today's Pictures

Took more pictures today than was necessarily healthy for me. I swear I’m going to blow out the shutter on my 40D sooner than I should. On the plus side of things, I did get a few good pictures in.  For starters, I happened to run into a man with...

Happy birthday to me!

My birthday happened to land on July 4th this year, just as it has for the 25 prior birthdays I have had. As always, I celebrated at someone else’s house party and watched fireworks in the evening. Here are some of the results. The rest are up on ...

Jul 06, 2008
Photography

Snoqualmie

Helen took me to Salish Lodge as a birthday present to me this year (in addition to some beautiful clothes, and the Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens). Nice girl ;-) Naturally, we took a few pictures over two days, and I’ve uploaded the first round of them t...

Jul 03, 2008
Photography

Awesome new lens

I picked up a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L lens yesterday, and it is absolutely fantastic! This is really a gorgeous lens: very fast, very sharp, super high quality, and it weighs just over 2 pounds. Simply crazy. I had a very serious conversation about...

Echo Chamber Alert

In case any of you care, here are the blogs I’ve found most interesting and relevant to my life over the past few weeks: Bert Stephani - Confessions of a Photographer - Great easy-to-follow discussions on off-camera lighting. Dare Obasanjo - 25...