According to my Mom, the first couple years of my life I spent almost every day by the waters of Greenlake in North Seattle. When I told her I was meeting a friend and going for a walk there during my visit to Seattle, she asked if I'd take a few pictures for her. She hasn't been back there in decades. Of course I complied and took a couple hundred pictures to capture the beauty and serenity of … [Read more...]
There's nothing like a sunrise photo shoot on the beautiful blue lake waters of Seattle. That's what we experienced for our third photo shoot at the David duChemin Vision Driven Photography workshop. My focus was the water, reflections, and the beautiful blue of the water and sky, enhanced by the gold hue of the rising sun. Almost caught up on my daily blog posts. … [Read more...]
What a whirlwind weekend with CreativeLIVE. What an amazing group of people behind the scenes making the weekend events happen for a worldwide LIVE viewing audience. What an honor to be in the studio audience! If you watched the broadcast, you know we had a 5 am call time on day 2 to go to Gas Works Park in Seattle. We had a couple hours and shot a wide variety of images and subjects. Here are … [Read more...]
If you didn't already know, I'm in Seattle for the David duChemin Vision Driven Photography workshop being put on by CreativeLIVE. It's been an absolutely astounding experience so far. Yesterday evening we went out on a photo shoot with mountain biking models and our fearless leader. Below are some of my favorite images from the shoot... notice that most of the them are of fellow photographers … [Read more...]
Left bright and early this morning for my cross country trip to Seattle. Landed this afternoon in beautiful green country with no humidity... fabulous. Spent the afternoon catching up with a good friend from many years ago. Got to meet her 6-week-old son, Carlos and ended up doing an impromptu photo shoot with her kids right before they headed off to bed. (I use the term photo shoot loosely … [Read more...]
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