Washington St.

I joined my family out in Washington St. and enjoyed some time down at the Tacoma wharf (thanks to guide Monica!). The first shot is a combination of long exposures (30 seconds) to get the smooth water. I used a faster shutter speed shot of the boys and combined the two images in Photoshop. Be sure to click on it for the large version.I squawked and Monica kindly pulled over to let me take a picture of this bridge with fast moving clouds flying past. This is an HDR combination of 6 exposures.

Trip home

I was headed home tonight from delivering a canvas print to a Summerfest customer out in Providence and saw this forming up and went and grabbed some shots. This is a quick sampling with some experimentation. Thanks for looking!

Hang time

I was dropping a father's day present off to a friend and saw this bird building a nest. My friend wasn't home but I took out my camera and spent some time in his yard following the action.

Summerfest contest

Well my son and I had quite an adventure participating in the first annual Summerfest photo contest. We did miserable in the contest but had a blast. I'll share stories and pictures that didn't make the cut. Basically we had 60 hours to find the best pictures we could and submit framed prints. This first image is the sunrise on the first morning. Shad and I went flying out of the house at 5:40 am (I skipped my 5:30 basketball all week!) and headed for the marsh. We didn't get far as the sun was rising quickly so I pulled off on the side of valley view highway and threw on my gumboots and stumbled over a barbwire fence into the mud. I found the best composition I could in the minute I had, slammed my tripod as deep into the mud as I could and started firing away. I had charged all my batteries EXCEPT the one in the camera. Back I ran through the mud and caught my inner thigh on a sharp barb. After freeing myself I ran to meet Shad who'd retrieved it from the other side of the road. Hurtled the fence again (a little more careful this time!) and started firing away again.The other shot I entered was of this red barn off the road in Benson at sunrise the next day.
Shad and I were up til 4:00 am Tuesday morning trying to get star trails at Tony Grove lake. Here is what Shad came home with. (more on these two later)
Here is Shad's second shot just outside of Logan. The lady at the framing store liked it way better than mine and wanted his autograph!

Flower Friday

In honor of Levi's Friday tradition:

Memorial Day Weekend

As I mentioned Memorial Day weekend was nice. Shot some neat scenes near Cutler Marsh and also spent some time with my son Wayne at the graveyard.

With wings

Felt like it would be a good day for posting things with wings. The first two shots were from a fun canoe trip planned by Levi as part of the Logan Photography Club. Levi did a great job and we had a blast. The butterfly is from a Vancouver Island garden.