Photographing Mount Rainier with the FUJIFILM X-T1
A few weeks ago I decided to take a short trip to Mount Rainier. The last time I was in the park was in 2012, but now that I live about three hours away [...]
Reflection Lake at Mount Rainier National Park
As I write this, I'm sitting in my hotel room, plotting my sunset adventure for my last night in Mount Rainier National Park. I've been here a few times already, the first [...]
The Return to Gorton Creek
This past weekend I went to Gorton Creek with an awesome group of photographer friends. Nick Wrzesinski, the amazing bearded man from SmugMug, was in town, so we treated him to an exceptional outing [...]
Big Spring Creek Falls
Yesterday, Brian and I decided to get in the car and drive out to a waterfall. It's been a while since I have done any landscape photography here in the Pacific Northwest, and let [...]
Stop Worrying About Other Photographers
Just a few weeks ago, I got up at the crack of dawn and went to Trillium Lake with a few other photographers, intent on photographing the sunrise. Soon after we got there, we [...]
Latourell Falls
The end (of summer) is near ... thank goodness! This has been an interesting summer. Brian and I moved to Portland in April to escape the always-warm and zero-cloud skies of the [...]
No Place Like Home
One Year in California A little over a year ago, Brian and I moved to the Silicon Valley after Brian got a new job at Google. It was a big change for [...]
Alterations in Light: The Seattle Space Needle
https://youtu.be/HJ1n5mQe11Y Got 50 seconds? I put this video together from images I photographed at Kerry Park last night before and after sunset (sunset was at 8:18 pm). I wanted to show a [...]
Supermoon in Seattle
I photographed the "supermoon" on Saturday night at Gasworks Park at the tail end of a Google+ photowalk here in Seattle. I wasn't expecting to get too much, especially with a hoard [...]
Unexpected Beauty
Sometimes a scene is obvious ... we can view it with our naked eyes and have expectations on how it would look as a photograph. Other times it takes searching and discovery [...]
Panther Creek Falls
I was in Portland most of last week and while in town I had the opportunity to spend an entire day with some absolutely amazing photographers, all of whom I've met through Google+ (Brian [...]
Beautiful Cliché
I had a nice, early morning today. I got up before the sunrise to meet up with my friend Jacob Lucas at Kerry Park in Seattle to do a sunrise shoot of [...]