If Only I Could Sketch….

…. but I can’t.  :)

Fortunately, photoshop can help me fake it.  Here’s a digital sketch, from a digital photograph:

Seattle, on one of its rare clear May sunsets.

(Also check out this panoramic, taken at the same time.)

Rainy Pike Place Market

Catching the market in the late evening, after another day of seattle sprinkle.

Pike Place Market (2 of 4)

 Pike Place Market

 

Pike Place Market 

 

Pike Place Market

Around Pioneer Square

More photos!

 

 

 

 

Photos

For my photo class, I’m supposed to be shooting 100 photos a week in addition to my assignments.  Here are some of my favorites so far…

 

Just Words 

 

Beauty by the Bangle 

 

Rushing 

 

 

 

Maiden Lane 

 

Never. Never.

Digital Photography 2 - Assignment #2

My photography class’s second assignment was:

Use the white balance of your camera, photograph all the colors of the rainbow.  Select a scene, object, etc for each color which adheres to your "inner association" of that color.

Here are the photos… I’m happier with some of them more than others.  :) 

RED: pain, passion

 ORANGE: fun, active

 

YELLOW: hope, lightness 

 

GREEN: growth, enrichment 

 

BLUE: timeless, solitude 

 

PURPLE: decadence

Digital Photography 2 - Assignment #1

I just started a "Digital Photography 2" course at the Photographic Center Northwest.  I’ve had two classes so far and am liking it a lot (though having 10+ hours of homework a week is both LOTS Of fun… and a bit tricky).

The first assignment was to photograph 15 letters - but not real letters.  :)

Here are the results of my first assignment - can you guess which letter is which?  (You can click through to my flickr site to see if you’re right.)

A Penny for your Thoughts

Random:  I just finished last week’s New Yorker on the bus. 

Did you know that…

  • A penny costs 1.7 cents to make?
  • A nickel costs ~10 cents to make?
  • A lobby funded by Jarden Zinc Products (major supplier of penny cores for the U.S. Mint) prevented the last "get rid of pennies" legislature?
  • Coinstar is now one of the biggest pro-penny lobbies?

Just crazy. 

Ah, the way the world works.  :)

Snow & Cherry Blossoms

The cherry blossoms in Seattle started blooming a couple of weeks ago.

The official first day of spring was last Thursday.

QUESTION:  What the #*@(#% is it doing snowing???

–  Signed, California Girl

(Yes… I did just make you watch snow falling to the ground.)

Kodak Moments

Every once in a while you capture a moment that’s just too good to be true.  While you’re shooting it, you’re both (a) really excited, and (b) feelin’ kinda corny, because the photos look almost posed.

That’s how I felt when I stumbled upon these shots today.

 

 

 

Random Seattle

A photo stroll through downtown seattle…

Pike Place Market 

 

Pike Place Market 

 

Seattle

 

 Olympic Sculpture Garden

 

Olympic Sculpture Garden

i seem to have a thing for empty chairs lately.