Spending a lot of time at Marymoor with Phoebe

Rescued dog and super moon

My friend, the canine behaviorist, saved this dog who was afraid of everything, completely unhousebroken and was covered with sooooo many fleas.  Within two weeks she is a different dog and has found a great home.  YAY.  Super moon on same friends driveway.

I Found The North Star!

Our recent camping adventure, I decided to attempt star trails. Now, I do not have the patience or time to do a bunch of editing and layering and so this was much more for fun than to create amazing works of art. I set the tripod up at 11pm, and went to bed. Woke up at 1am, on my own and pulled the camera off. This was the result...I ended up pointing it right at the north star! How neat!

Side note - the highlighting of the trees is due to the Supermoon which was WAY too much light pollution for the star trail experiment. Hoping for clear weather the coming weeks to get some more attempts going.

Playing in the Woods!

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Fun Get-together

adieu ...

Cyrus's final days.

Bone cancer

Adieu Cyrus

Meet Up Favorites

Vashon Island Sunset Over Olympics

Jen and her Steer

His name is Richard (nickname is appropriate here).

Fruits of my Work on Vacation

I often post Landscape/Botanicals/Life in Nature stuff. I also work hard at portraiture. Below are my favorite images from my last three portraiture sessions (engagement, wedding, engagement). So much for Vacation????

"Work Vacation"

Between three photo sessions (engagement, rehearsal, and Wedding) and working on our cabin in the woods (took out log siding and replaced with new cedar siding), my uncle wanted to do some workshop type photography lessons with me. SO we woke up at 3am Seattle time and headed out for the sunrise. We missed a lot of color due to the heavy rains the day before; but the rolling fog in the valleys made for some really dynamic photos!

I haven't been able to touch many, but this was an instant favorite for me:

Made it to Washington.  Unfortunately it rained from Oregon to Redmond.  Big surprise for me.  I guess I have been totally taking the California weather for granted.  Here are some pix from my trip.

What We Saw At Camp This Weekend

Ok there were a bunch of other photos too, but I didn't want to overwhelm the blog with them :) 

 

Paperback Cover

truly quandary....

                         It's a quandary... Book/record cover/magazine

                                               TIME

                                                >>>marches on

                                               LOOK

                                               >>>learn

                                               PHOTOGRAPHER

                                               >>>ponder

                                               quandary....

Another non-assignment...

Thomas, my friend Adam, and I were asked to photograph Relay for Life Redmond/Kirkland yesterday. We have nearly 5,000 images after 12hrs of shooting. So far, this one I took is my most favorite.




Now, admittedly, the sky was not that purple. In fact it was BLUE! How disappointing! It did have a good bunch of orange in the sky, but it didn't show up as much. It looked like this:




So in Photoshop, I added a warm filter, then boosted the vibrancy almost 100%. It gave me that beautiful purple and golden color in the sky. Perfect for a Mardi Gras themed Relay for Life!

And for those who have trouble reading the letters; it spells CURE :)