Landscape

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

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

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 [...]