Week 21: Enjoying the Sun

Yesterday was a beautiful day in Seattle. I spent the afternoon at a BBQ at Carkeek Park with friends. Wandered down to the shore and snapped these two unsuspecting souls. I rarely take pictures of people but this scene caused many things to run through my head. Who are these people, what are they talking about, did that they know were being stalked by a photographer?



Location: Carkeek Park, Seattle, WA
Camera: Canon 7D

Week 20: Goose Hunting

Tonight after work I went hunting for geese, more specifically goslings. This is all a result of my co-worker Greg. Yesterday morning he sent out an email with photos he took on his bike ride into work featuring 2 baby goslings. I decided I must go find them. This morning I packed my camera in my pannier with the plan to hunt these goslings down after work. The plan was successful and I shot a goose.



Location: Seattle, WA
Camera: Canon 7D

Week 19: NewYork State of Mind

I had a very quick trip to NYC to attend a conference on Monday and was lucky to be able to squeeze in a great dinner at Loeb Central Park Boathouse with my cousin Sheila. If you've never been the view is amazing and the food is just as good, I highly recommend it. For dinner I had the mixed green salad, Jumbo shrimp with roasted fingerling potatoes, garlic confit and parsley sauce. Topped off with the cheese platter. I didn't take any photos of my food I did however get one of the view.




More photos from the quick trip can be seen on my photostream.


Camera: Canon 7D


Location: Central Park, New York City

Week 18: A New Project

This week has been super busy not with work or travel but with a new project I have taken on. as a result I have not had a chance to go out with my camera. I have decided to renovate my kitchen which has resulted in this week being filled with meetings with my designer, researching stuff on line, interviewing contractors, viewing samples of counter tops and cabinets. Holy moly this is a lot of work. Good news is some decisions have been made and it looks like I should be able to get this project completed by July. The decisions I have made is that the counter tops will be from EcoTop or something similar this is a very green product, they are made from recycled paper the counter tops will either be black or a dark grey. I am leaning towards a cream color for the cabinets or a very light maple. These samples (and photos) are from Canyon Creek.


Speaking of samples the few pictures I have taken this week are samples of fabric for the project. Fabric, what do I need fabric for well the new kitchen will have an elevated bar. While these aren't the greatest shots as they were taken with my camera phone in poor lighting conditions I didn't want to miss out on a week. These are the 3 fabrics I am considering for the bar stools. What do you think I should go with:

Week 17: I See Summer

Yesterday was a gorgeous day for a hike. A 1.5 hour car drive and a 15 minute ferry and I was at Ebey's Landing on Whidbey Island for a 6 mile hike along the bluffs. Clear blue skies & big white clouds, it really doesn't get much better than this. I have a feeling this is going to be the first of many hikes over the next coming months.




For more photos from the hike check out my photostream

Camera: Canon 7D
Location: Whidbey Island, WA

Week 16: Sun Drenched Tulips

Today I woke up at 3:45AM to drive up to Skagit Valley with my Flickr peeps. A very early hour but needed in order to catch the sunrise. The trip was well worth it got a lot of great shots. This is one of my favorites of the day.

Camera: Canon 7D

Location: Skagit Valley, WA

More photos from the trip can be seen here.

Night & Day

It is amazing how much a place changes throughout the day. I tend to get up early even while I am on vacation to get shots without lots of tourists in my photos as well as take advantage of the "golden hour". This enables me to get photos such as this. About an hour later this isn't possible as there are just too many people milling about. At night there is a much different feel to places and it's lots of fun playing with long exposures. Here are some shots of the same place taken during the day and again at night.

Florence at Night: Hehehehe just checking to see who is paying attention. Now for the real shots. Duomo

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Ponte Vecchio

The Market