Elements of Observation

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Shadows

New Orleans

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A Green Theme

New Orleans

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Theatricks

New Orleans

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Welcome

New Orleans

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New Orleans

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Musicians

New Orleans

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Canal Street Parade

New Orleans

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Waiting for those beads

Canal Street Parade

New Orleans

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Canal Street Parade

New Orleans

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French Quarter Acrobatics
New Orleans

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French Quarter

New Orleans

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Philip Aranatauff
Bauhaus Coffee, Capital Hill

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Philip Arnatauff
Bauhaus Coffee, Capital Hill

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Adam and Isabel

Courthouse Wedding

August 7, 2009

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Paradise
San Iqnacio, Belize

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Masked Beauty

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More than just a mom

Wine and Stories

Amorette and Cape Kiwanda

Even though our few days on the coast were shrouded in fog, the light was amazing, perfect photographic light. I loved it. We both did. Amorette took five hundred photos, half of which I know are of me.

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Am's Glasses

The Fold of her Arms

The Smile I missed

It's been many years since I've seen a good friend of mine from high school. Since Facebook and Myspace is good for some things, like keeping in touch, we have been able to stay in each other's lives, virtually. I approached the idea of her visiting me, here in Seattle several months ago and to my surprise and delight, she had her ticket bought that same night. It was fun seeing her, in real time. We talked for hours and told each other many stories and drank a lot of wine. We also took many photos of each other, our favorite past time.

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Beach Bunny

Pacific City, OR

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Parisian Man feeding pigeons

Before/After

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Empty Lot 1#

Used the Vintage Tutorial from Coffee Shop Photography and then added a brown/blue layer.

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Highway 20 to Leavenworth

Black and White or Color?

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Pine Food Market

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Pink Dog

This copy seems to be missing some pixels (click on the picture to see large format), but I can't find the original in order to restore the original data. I do like the comp a lot and the grain adds something to it. Probably not very printable, but still one of my favorite shots.

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Choo Choo

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Reflection at Cal Anderson

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Cal Anderson Park

Black and White Version

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Minatures

Little things made bigger than life by the magic of macro photography.

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Urban Canvas

In a dreary city like Seattle, all color stands out, no matter how mundane.

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For Whom the Bell Flower Rings

I'm actually not sure what this flower is called, but to me it hangs like a bell, so hence, the title.

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Distorted Scene - Color Temperature

Cal Anderson Park

I took a series of these photos for an online art contest with the theme of color temperature. Overall, I'm digging on the color, but I'm not sure about the overall blurry effect. The scene below is truer to the actual colors. This one I bumped up the color saturation and changed the blue hue to a darker tone to give the scene more of an urban feel to it. In terms of color I prefer this piece, but still not so sure about the distortion. Oh, I also added a slight diffuse glow to add to the dream like feel.

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Cal Anderson Park

Seattle

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Bikes and Jeans

Amsterdam

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The Yellow Umbrella

Italy

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Yellow

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L'Oublieux

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Hipsters in Williamsburg

DVD's

Love Now

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Spectrum

Coming In

Kenya Coast

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Scattered

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Timepiece

Brooklyn Bridge

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I had a Wife Once

Seattle

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Street Hogs

Man on Bike

Rome

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Throughoway

Coming Out

Fierence

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Europeon Color

Amsterdam

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Patterns

Café in Paris

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Undisturbed

Rome

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Where the Light may fall

New York City

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Umbrellas
My favorite word and if you know me, you'll know I took a Classic Latin/Greek Etymology Course recently and am digging on word parts and their meanings.
"Umbr" Latin meaning "shade"
-ella Diminutive Suffix meaning "little"

New York City

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Caught

Illusion

Different Perspective

Observing from afar Part II and upclose

New York City

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Different forms of Abandonment

Alki Beach, WA

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The Lure of Simple Scenes

Alki Beach

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Photo is derived from the Greek word Phos which means "light"
-graph is a Greek word meaning "to draw" or "to write"
-er is a noun forming suffix meaning "one who concerns with"

Photographer: One who draws or writes with light.

As a photographer I find it my duty to follow the light, because where the light is, is where my lens should always be.

I love to spend the extra care and attention in getting the perfect shot: exposure, white balance, focus, shutter/aperture. I love photos like these that show evidence that I have to some degree improved technically. The fireweed was taken quickly, and the spiky bulb is one of many I took. I experimented with different DOF and shutter speeds. I remember the light, it was a few moments before the sun was about to start its descent behind the horizon. Perfect lighting. Neither one of these are edited in photoshop. That pleases me to no end.

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Dualing Snap Pea Vines

I love to observe the tiniest of worlds.

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Observing from afar Part I

New York City

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To feel that waking is another dream that dreams of not dreaming and that the death we fear in our bones is the death that every night we call a dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

The Art of Poetry

A waking dream is created - birds weave in and out through waves, escaping the mind's eye. Yet here, the moment ascends, the silence, the fall of the open space between the bird’s wings and the wind. And for one glorious instant the dream exists outside the death of waking.

Autumn Azure

The Trouble with Imagination

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Pacific City is a best kept secret. I'm not sure how many people are aware of this beautiful oasis that reminds in a lot of ways of the Oaxacan Coast. Exotic blues, stretches of pale sand, undulated water. It is tucked away off of Hwy 101 along the Oregon Coast and is by far the windiest place I've been.

Jeremy and I often, as most people do, feel a lot stress in the city. While we're both city folk we both enjoy the openness of nature, the ocean, the world.

Luckily for me, the horizon was translucent, polarized without a filter. We had to climb up a steep dune and walk through very hot sand. We also had to contend with extreme winds, but it was worth the burn on the bottom of my feet because what was on the other side are what paintings and dreams are made.