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Narrator: It Wasn't Time

Narrator: It Wasn't Time - I was pretty sure I was ready to get back to doing photoshoots, back around the end of May. The Universe had other plans. #Boudoir #Photography #Seattle #EmeraldCity #QueenAnne #LifeInTheAgeOfCOVID #ThatPandemicLife #ViriOfInsta

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I was pretty sure I was ready to get back to doing photoshoots, back around the end of May. The Universe had other plans.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]With my son getting married back on the East Coast in June and my Pop’s health declining rapidly, and then the rise of the Δ COVID variant, as well as some challenging days for my own spine, it just…

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Updated Photographic Life-list of Birds

Updated Photographic Life-list of Birds: It was inevitable that I'd eventually start publishing my bird lists here. #Birds #Birding #Photography #Nature #Goddamnit #Avifauna

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I love birding. I love going places and seeing what birds are around and trying to get really pretty shots of them to share with people. I want to share my love of birds and hope it spreads to everyone. And I want everyone to understand that birding should be for everyone. It isn’t just a thing that old people do or a high-intensity sport where…

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Line from a Song

Line from a Song: Ok, I give up. I have to say, I struggled with this one in a weird sort of way. #52WeekChallenge #HONNE #Food #Photography #PotatoesOfInstagram

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Ok, I give up. I have to say, I struggled with this one in a weird sort of way. It’s no one’s fault but mine, really, but I’m at a complete loss, and thus several days late posting this one (not really unusual, that last bit).[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82199″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_title=”yes”…

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Group Portrait

Group Portrait: Seems like a nice family portrait, I'll see what I can do about sending them a copy, I think. #Flyer #Tugboat #Seattle #52WeekChallenge

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]My friend Will is a bit of a Tugboat buff, so every once in a while I’ll see an opportunity for a half-decent shot of one to share with him. I was down the Fremont Bridge the other day, and saw this tug, Flyer, with her crew/passengers heading up top to pass under the bridge.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82190″ caption=”yes”…

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2021-12 A Chair

2021-12 A Chair: I guess sometimes the universe just provides. #52WeekChallenge #CatchingUp #AllCaughtUpNow #SeeYouTuesdayAndFriday

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I hunted and searched for quite awhile for a suitable chair to photograph for this prompt. I found some chairs outside a permanently closed café, and they were stacked kind of haphazardly in a manner that suggested abandonment, so that would have been interesting, but the prompt specifically says “*A*” Chair. I was on my way back to the house,…

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It Happens Over Time

It Happens Over Time: Has Adobe just given up? #Adobe #BuildingUpkeep #ZombieApocalypse #COVIDCare #Seattle #LookinABitShabby

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I saw this the other day on my walkabout around Fremont.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82150″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_title=”yes” lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_social=”yes” lbox_deep=”yes” lbox_connected=”yes”][vc_column_text]I don’t know what Adobe has been up to over the course of the pandemic, but the…

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2021-11 Rule of Thirds

2021-11 Rule of Thirds: Like The Male Gaze, I sometimes like to play into The Rule of Thirds while simultaneously subverting it. #RuleBreaker #52WeekChallenge #CatchingUp #Seattle #Wine #RuleOfThirds #Photography #Art

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The Rule of Thirds at its simplest is pretty straightforward. Arrange a subject in a visual piece about a third of the way in from the edge of the piece, and it has a nice balance, or something approximately thereabouts. I use it sometimes to frame a shot, and subvert it sometimes too, by placing my subject at some different…

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Interpretation of Art

Interpretation of Art: I think I'll call it "Walking Man with Cell Phone". #52WeekChallenge #Seattle #CatchingUp

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]So there’s this neat little sculpture of an easel and empty frame down under the Aurora Avenue bridge that I thought would make a nice frame for a watercolor.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82148″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_title=”yes” lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_social=”yes” lbox_deep=”yes”…

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2021-10 Kiss

2021-10 Kiss: It was the 'Ronas that caught my eye, though. Art by Randolph Silver. #Seattle #QueenAnne #52WeekChallenge #CatchingUp

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Close enough, don’t you think?[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82109″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_title=”yes” lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_social=”yes” lbox_deep=”yes” lbox_connected=”yes”][vc_column_text]I was thinking about grabbing whatever random couple I saw next to ask them to kiss for this prompt, when…

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Statutes

Statutes: Enjoy this one at face value, I suppose. #52WeekChallenge #Seattle #CatchingUp

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I was walking along the Fremont Canal, AKA the Lake Washington Shipping Canal, AKA The Cut, with an eye out for fun signs with laws or regulations on them. I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for, but something about the symmetry and lack thereof in this frame caught my eye.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82112″ caption=”yes”…

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2021-09 Pattern

2021-09 Pattern: I didn't have a clue as to what I was going to do about the "Pattern" prompt for this post, but it was next on the list #52WeekChallenge #CatchingUp #Seattle

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I didn’t have a clue as to what I was going to do about the “Pattern” prompt for this post, but it was next on the list when I went walkabout the other day to catch up this year’s 52 week photography challenge. But this steel grating caught my eye as I crossed the Fremont Bridge.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82106″ caption=”yes”…

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High Above

High Above: It came out ok, but I wish the day had been more clear. #52WeekChallenge #Seattle #CatchingUp

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I was over at Discovery Park last week lo get a shot for the Paths and/or Trails prompt, and had this shot in mind for this prompt while I was there.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82108″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_title=”yes” lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_social=”yes” lbox_deep=”yes”…

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2021-08 Complementary Colors

2021-08 Complementary Colors: No one asked me to choose the color scheme for the Fremont Bridge. Turns out, that's a good thing. #52WeekChallenge #CatchingUp #MyBrainMadeMeLate

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I’ve posted shots of the Fremont Bridge before, for my other 52-week project. I wouldn’t have chosen blue and orange for the colors of a cute little drawbridge across the Lake Washington Shipping Canal, but no one asked me.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82105″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_title=”yes”…

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Paths and/or Trails

Paths and/or Trails: This is more or less the shot I wanted to take awhile back but couldn't. I'm on a mission to catch up both of my 52-week projects after a bout of chemically-induced mental health collapse, so these are going to come fast and dirty.

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I’m on a mission to catch up both of my 52-week photography projects after a bout of chemically-induced mental health collapse, so these are going to come fast and dirty (…insert sexual innuendo of choice here…), so hang on to your butts.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”82107″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″…

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2021-07 Lines

2021-07 Lines: I managed to survive The Great Snowpocalypse of 2021, but I think whoever is in charge of the weather needs a stern talking to! Picking back up on my two 52-week photo projects after a brief medical hiatus. #Snowpocalypse2021 #Seattle #TheySaidTheWintersWereMild

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I quit smoking back in December. My last cigarette was December 4th, and I’m pretty proud of that, after a pack a day for just over 30 years. But I’d needed a little help, and was on an anti-depressant that’s also used for smoking cessation. Thing is, it really scrambled my brain. I was having some pretty bad anxiety and panic attacks, and they kept…

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A Better Brown Creeper

A Better Brown Creeper: The latest in this series of Better Bird Photos #PNW #Seattle #DiscoveryPark #UpperLeftUSA #Birds #Birding #LilBrownBirds

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I’ve talked on the blog before about how living in the Pacific Northwest has not only allowed me to add new birds to my life lists, but also provided me with the opportunity for better photos of birds for which I previously only had crappy shots. Highlights include a Black-capped Chickadee, a Barred Owl, a Barred Owl again, and a Snowy…

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Winter Landscape

Winter Landscape: Mother Nature decided to oblige my project and this past weekend it snowed like hell. Can't get much more Winter Landscape than that. #52WeekChallenge #Seattle #QueenAnne #Snow #Winter #Snowpocalypse #Snowmageddon

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I’m told the typical Seattle landscape in winter involves rain much more often than snow, so I had been wondering what I’d do for this prompt, or if I’d even do it. There are some alternate themes that can be substituted in, and that was an option. But Mother Nature decided to oblige my project and this past weekend it snowed like hell. Can’t get…