- Photography - 2010
Digital meanderings, using a Nikon D5000 and not much else. - Once upon a time I shot film, and refused to go digital. That changed on New Years Eve, and 2010 is my first year with a DSLR. That being said, it was a bit of a rocky start as I got used to everything, and it didn't help that it took me a while to learn that Lightroom is superior to the RAW processor I was using at first. The difference in post-processing capabilities and ease is astounding, to say the least.
I shoot with a Nikon D5000, and nearly always stick to my 35mm prime lens.
This project is made up of random bits of digital imagery that I've captured throughout the year -- they're not all the images I'm capturing, just my favorites. Some are general travel or street/urban shots from Seattle and the surrounding area, and some are portraiture. If I include one of my cat, chalk it up to me loving the image itself too much not to include it. Images will present in reverse chronological order -- newest up top.
Any images here can be seen larger, and usually grabbed at full resolution on Loupe. 
The images in the above group were taken in Seattle, during the Winter's first snow.
5th Avenue at Five Points, Seattle.- From the project Saturday. Taken on a walk through Seattle on a busier-than-usual Saturday afternoon.
- Taken in the Seattle Public Library.
- Grabbed this shot just a couple of feet directly above a literal feeding frenzy at the huge koi pond in Seattle's Japanese garden. The koi in the pond are proportionally gigantic, and they swarm wherever they think food may be. Some of the fish in this picture are easily larger than a dachshund.
- In the same pond as the enormous koi, we found Mr. Turtle -- a friendly little shellback who thought he was a fish.
- An Ode to Backpack Suit Guy
Mr. Backpack Suit Guy, who walks without moving his arms, who stares blankly ahead while listening to music on his over-ear headphones, who prefers a generic slate grey to more adventurous colors: Your haircut is vanilla, but your backpack is ill, because it has a hot pink sport-stripe. Keep on walking, Mr. Backpack Suit Guy.
This image is from a newer project titled An Early Morning Walk. - We were riding the bus this evening, as it was barely beginning to cool off after an extremely hot day, and I noticed the little dried-up flowers across the aisle. I thought it was a cute gesture :)
- This image is one of four, and I couldn't decide which was my favorite. So, I ended up creating a separate project just for them, called Capacity: 320. I had come across an old fallout shelter sign outside the decaying Seattle Steam plant, now defunct.
- This shot and the two that follow were all taken through thick aquarium glass, with a lens hood firmly pressed up against the glass itself. The image above is not a macro shot, but was in fact taken from about a foot's distance from a massive clam. The creature was so hugely enormous that we named it Ginormaclam, and it really was glowing that blue color as it pulsated in the water.
- If you look closely enough, you can make out Nemo's stripes deep within the center of the anemone.
- This pufferfish was about as big as the average dog, and as much as I'd love to see it puffed-up, I wouldn't ever want to make it angry.
- We happened across this lonely little guy as he sat waiting patiently for his master to finish shopping.
- Of all the photos I've taken, film or digital, this one is now my favorite.
- This and the image below are from what I now call the Short-Hair Shoot. The session was all but required after my girlfriend mustered the courage to go and get the hair re-styling that she had been talking about for months. It's also the shoot that the image above this (Eyes) came from, though it had nothing to do with hair.
- This and the two images beneath it are from a summer day along the Seattle piers (and later across the bay to West Seattle).
- This image and the one below it are a pair. These bright flowers grow in an atrium garden at the center of the apartment building in which my girlfriend and I live. Underneath them lies the structural damage that such a garden can cause. I loved how polar-opposite the two images were.
- This and the image that follows are self-portraits of myself. I was bored one night, home alone with the cat and iTunes, and realized that I was in dire need of a new head shot. The first image is the one I ended up using just about everywhere.
- A simple long-exposure shot from the rooftop of the Seattle docks. It was a nice night.
- Ninja turtles had apparently taken up residence in Post Alley.
- This and the two images following were from a day-trip across the Sound on a Seattle Ferry. The afternoon lighting was fantastic.
- Not gonna lie, the University of Washington library looks like Hogwarts. Also, all memes are sourced in this book.
- Many layers of graffiti, stencils, papier mache and poster-paper have made the walls of Post Alley an interesting, if not overly profane, visual experience.
- Sophie - our continuous source of carpet-humor.
- Orchids in a small inn tucked away along Pike Place Market.
- Public transportation: A blessing and a curse.
- This image and the two below are part of what is now referred to as the original Long-Hair Shoot. It was in very soft lighting.
- This and the following two images are from the overlook viewpoint at Union & 1st in Seattle. Post Alley from above, the Seattle Art Museum, and the ridiculously long stairs leading down to the waterfront below.
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