On a recent trip to Seattle's Pikes Place Market I had a great time going crazy with my camera.  Here are a few pictures I would like to share from that outing.

The Puppeteer

Freeway of Life

Its been a while since the camrea has gotten some fresh air.
I went downtown inspite of the recent Seattle Monorail Collision. I wanted to share what i find Ironic,  the enginer who designed the Seattle Monorail decided that a narrow section between the two track was acceptable.  Unfortunatly on when two trains run in this turn at the same time you get this.  Needless to say this problem is being resolved as we speak...  
This is what generaly happens when you get me downtown with a camera...
I recently finished a project that I had been working on for my friends daughter's 2nd birthday. This is a closeup of the best airbrushing I have ever put my name on.  Happy Birthday Natalie

As I get older, I love the fall more and more. This year especially, as mushroom hunting is a new favorite pasttime of ours. 13 pounds of chanterelles, our biggest haul to date, meant we had to forego highly amusing gastric opportunities.

It's been another LOOONNG day.  With a little help from you, I've added a brand new way to navigate this website.  What did I add?  Tags.  Aka Folksonomies

What the heck are tags?
Tags are a way you, the members of this site, can categorize the many, many posts found on this website.  If your post is about Lights in Seattle, you'd tag the post as "Lights" and "Seattle".  The system has a built in way of checking your tag against what already exists, so you might want to use that.

I'll write more... but I'm mentally dead
Yup... I've been doing this since 9 this morning, so that is about 12 hours straight.

Night ya'll... I'll explain more tommorow.

PS:  DailyKOS.  Eat your heart out.

Space Needle this Way
And also This Way too
Redrum The Red Room at the great Seattle Library.
The famous Fish toss At Pike Street Market
Flowers
Fruits & Veggies
I got Crabs in Seattle.
And of course.. another view of the Space Needle

Warning NSFOW - Not Safe for Otter Work
What I didn't expect to see in Seattle!
Surprise
Yes that is what you think it is. No it's not the Space Needle.
Great, shown up by him.

Had A Great day in Seattle today But my trip is about over. Will head home tomorrow but maybe will stop at Crater lake on the way home.

Then will sift through the shots for some better ones of Seattle Downtown

Good afternon everyone ... new to the site and not sure how it works so I'll give you this and see how it goes over.

I was visiting Seattle not long ago and came accross this view through my finder.  Let me know what you think about it.  

Take care and happy clicking,

The Dancefloor

Well, the lady and I moved from a green dot to a red one, from 450 square feet to 900 square feet.

I'll really miss the old studio, it had a great view, electic neighborhood, an  awesome "old world" charm complete with mohagany trim that you just can't find very easily.  It's a shame they didn't put 1 bedrooms on the view side, I would have stayed in an heartbeat.

The new place is huge .  It has a dishwasher, which is awesome cause the old kitchen did not.  It has a closet that is turning  into my  new office.  Slowly, we are getting unpacked.

I'll miss you old place...

I recently went to San Juan Island to celebrate my dad's 10 year anniversary with my step mom.  They have a beautiful old hotel in Roache Harbor, and an even more gorgeous garden.  While waiting for everyone to finish up their shopping, I snapped a few shots.

Now, I'm no horticulturist, so I have no idea what most of these things are, except for this red dahlia and this sunflower.

Alien Seed Pod
Bell Flower
Caterpillar/Worm Flower
Clover Like Flower
Clover Like Flower 2
Clover Like Flower 3
Echinecea?
Echinecea 2
Different Clover Like Plant
Different Clover Like Plant 2
Looking Down on Orange Flowers
Side View of Orange Flowers
Thistle?

A friend of mine and I went to see one of our college buds stationed at Ft. Lewis outside of Seattle.  After a day of touring, we went to a Mariners' game.  Under the Safecolights we saw Mr. Suzukistrike his famous pose.
The next day, we went to Mt. Rainier Nat. Park, found a saw a nice view of the Mountain Stream, and a beautiful view of theMountain.  The next day we went to the San Juan Islands and took a ferry to Friday Harbor.  I found the famouslighthouse, but no Orcas.  I was bummed.  Oh well.  As we left I had one more nice view of Rainierfrom the air

Well Sir...

I've been watching the fog roll in from my apartment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

I've gone to the Pacific Ocean

I got a cat

I've gone on a  Road Trip.  While on the trip I learned to look at the entire frame before taking a picture.

Oh yea, I made posting stories easier.  Much, much more to come...

If you live in or around Seattle, the fine folks at Discovery Park are running a photography contest. Whoever takes the best picture of the park will be featured in a calander. Details are here: cityofseattle.net

In other news, I purchased a new webserver. Once I'm done setting it up, it will house all 10 gigabytes of images, stories and comments that accumulated over the last three years of Photographica's operation.

Server Porn: The server a 1U Dell PowerEdge 350 with a 1ghz P3, dual 80 gig IDE drives (RAID'ed) and 512 megs of ram. While it's not the fastest or newest box, for $350 you really cant go wrong. The system will be running SuSE Linux 9.1, Apache 1.3.27, mod_perl, ImageMagik, and MySQL. The server will be with XLAN, a hosting company I run and it will be in the Westin Building in Downtown Seattle running off a very, very fast network. The box will be used exclusively to run Photographica, which is based on a highly modified version of Scoop, a content management system.

Starting November 13th, I took a roadtrip across the nation - beginning in New Orleans, LA, and ending in Seattle, WA. I honed my skills at shooting my digital from moving vehicles - such as this shot of a breezy (experimental aircraft) shot from an autogyro (another experimental aircraft) in Lafayette, LA. On a road trip through Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, and up the Left Coast, one can see unusual things, such as a snowstorm in the Mojave.

Shooting from the car was the norm on this trip, like these pictures from West Texas of a tree and an oil well. This is a railside grain mill also in West Texas, which we left to drive through the middle of nowhere and observe a very memorable sunset in New Mexico. Occasionally, I'd get out of the car and get to shoot Elana and Bisous having fun on a beach in the redwoods, or an eerie moonrise. There are many beautiful shots of the redwood forests, but I picked these mossy trees and this tiny mushroom for an illustration of scale.

Just moved in two months ago. This is the view from the stairwell on my floor.

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I decided to post this here since there are quite a few seattle/tacoma photo bloggers who visit the site.

A call to all Seattle/Tacoma photo bloggers...

I want to get us a group show. If you are interested in participating, send me a CD with your best images. You must send at least 3 images and a maximum of five. Make sure that the images are in their largest original format. Deadline for entries is April 30th. This should give everyone sometime to go through images, or get out and take some. After, I receive all entries I will get the images printed, assemble a portfolio, and find a gallery space. I hope to be able to include everyone who enters, but depending on the space the best entries will be invited for the final show. In order to allay any fears you will obtain rights to all photos sent. The files will only be used to print up 5x7 or 8x10 images to be placed into the portfolio.

Stats again

1. Send CD with 3 to 5 pictures in original size. (They can be altered however you want just make sure they are hi-res)

2. Include Name, Phone Number, Email, Address, website, and photo titles.

3. All entries must be submitted by April 30, 2004.

If you have any questions, or would like to help let me know.

Send your submissions to:
then you discover
group show
P.O. Box 68303
Seattle, WA 98188

More street art for the fun of it.

This is one of my favorite murals. It's in downtown Seattle on first street I think. I thought I might crop out a lot of the surrounding scene. I decided in the end to leave it all in. I think it adds something overall.

I used to live in Seattle. I regret leaving all the time. Going back soon to stay!

The lady and I went to the Northwest Folklife Festival last week. After some food, we hung out at the fountain.

First there was some guy playing in the water. Of course, there were others in the fountain as well, but the most interesting creature in the fountain was this dog

Every Sunday, Jenni and I have brunch at a different Seattle restaurant with a floating circle of friends. Last Sunday, it was at Julia's on Broadway, and I had the bright Seattle winter sun (?) in my face. So I put my sunglasses on, and took this picture of my spectacles on the table, with the shadows of the holly centerpiece.

This is my first contribution with my first digital camera, a Nikon 4500, that I got a week ago. I think it's going to work okay.

Located at the bottom of the street - Fauntleroy Park was my childhood backyard. Many long summer days and nights were spent in this 23 some odd arce wooded park blazing trails, building dams, and exploring.

Over the past few days, I've been walking through the many paths and trails found in that park. Many places I had not visited in years.

On what was originally farm land, you can still see remnants of the old - like this tire and drive shaft

I present you with the best part of Fauntleroy Park: Fauntleroy Creek

So how many Seattle-area people are on here? Any interest in perhaps getting together at some point?