Santa Monica Beach
A couple of shots from a recent weekend trip to Santa Monica – the two shots of the pier are high dynamic range (HDR) created using Nik Software’s HDR Efex Pro plugin for Photoshop.
Old Barn, Skagit Valley
Last week I went up to the Skagit Valley with a friend to shoot the beautiful fields of flowers at the annual tulip festival, but got sidetracked during our scouting drive when we passed by this incredible decaying barn set back a little from road. After a quick consultation (which mostly was “wow did you [...]
4th of July Fireworks – South Lake Union, Seattle
Shot the fireworks this weekend from an excellent vantage point – from the stern of the Virginia V, one of the wooden steamships docked at south Lake Union. These are all long exposures as you will see from the light trails of the moving boats on the lake – most of them were 30 second [...]
Vancouver is a giant softbox
Panorama taken from my hotel balcony last weekend. The amount of light just bouncing everywhere was amazing, and nearly every high rise building in the downtown area is glass and/or mirrored which makes it all even more beautiful. Technical notes: this is a stitch of 10 vertical shots with a Nikon D700; the final image [...]
From the archive, on a winter night
A little greenery to rail against the fading winter light. Shot last spring at the Japanese Garden in Seattle’s Arboretum.
Shooting for Black and White – Valley of Fire
I spend a lot of time in Las Vegas for various trade shows – CES, PMA, Photoshop World, to name a few. Every year I try to get outside the city for a morning shoot, just to get some fresh air and reset from the weirdness of the Strip. There are amazing places within a [...]
