Puyallup Fair
When I was a kid we’d go go to the amusement park once in a while – not every year but enough times for me to have compiled a set of memories of the sights and smells of the rides, the entertainment, and the food. We didn’t really have county fairs – I grew up [...]
Furry 5K
Spent the morning yesterday volunteering as a photographer at the Furry 5K, a fun run/fundraiser for the Seattle Animal Shelter. Great support was provided by local companies from dog trainers, to pet food, to veterinary services, and there were demonstrations of agility and frisbee dogs as well. Great to see so many people out running [...]
Baron’s First Portrait
Here’s our new Bernese Mountain Dog puppy, Baron, age 8 weeks. I shot this as he stood in a doorway watching all the adult Berners romp around on the deck outside. Shooting portraits of puppies is a lot like shooting sports – a combination of understanding behavior, anticipating moments, and quick reflexes [singlepic id=45 w=600 [...]
Tucker – 14 weeks
This past weekend I got a chance to do another quick portrait session with Tucker, who is now 14 weeks old. He’s turning into a great dog, full of personality, as you can tell from these shots! [nggallery id=4]
Really Right Stuff and rights-grab photo contests
Always read the fine print! It has become a fairly common practice, sadly, to create “photo contests” that are thinly-veiled tools for companies and publishers to get content for free. Some of these “contests” are judged, some are popularity contests (i.e., get your family and all your Facebook friends to vote for you! Yay!). So [...]
Fix your Facebook privacy settings!
Pretty much everyone uses social networks of one kind or another – a Bank of America analyst post indicates that in December 81% of the US internet population visited a social networking site. There are a lot of choices out there – Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, to name a few. For a photographer, they’ve [...]
Building the new site
Slowly, slowly, slowly this is coming together. I had truly no idea how manual a process it would be to build this site. It’s getting there, but a lot of the content and plumbing is still a work in progress. More to come.
