Skeleton Family Watches the Big Game

A little experiment with lighting and depth of field during the U-20 World Cup final (Viva Ghana!) and the first of several expected October appearances of members of the Skeleton family.

Crowsong

Sculpture, sunset, song.

Orange Dawn

Capitol Lake reflects sunrise-illuminated steam from the Washington state capitol's steam plant.

Nature, abstracted

This may help explain my somewhat skewed view of the world. This is an unretouched photo of a tree taken through the upstairs window of my 86-year-old home. The windows are old, warbly single-pane glass, but I didn't realize they were this bad! Actually, the effect is emphasized by the zoom lens, with a rather interesting, almost impressionistic effect. Which I like.

Morning Macro

Garden visitor on the morning of Sunday 4 October.

Sliding with the Bhattacharyas

Debashish Bhattacharya (slide ukulele) and Subhashis Bhattacharya (tabla) performing at Jazz Alley, Seattle 30 September 2009 -- a magical performance of traditional and not-so-traditional Indian music.

Winners!

I received some nice recognition/publicity this week that I'm excited to share with you. The photo of Delhi 2 Dublin that I recently shared here was selected as a winner of the Bumbershoot photo contest (see results here).

Also, this photo of the historic marker and the old state capitol building in Olympia, Washington, appears as part of an article by Deborah Stephens in the fall edition of Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. Some parts of the magazine are available online. So I just want to thank you all for your encouraging messages and comments about my photos. I'm pleased that they are reaching an ever-wider audience!

Bowl of Sunlight

Finished breakfast, noticed marvelous shadows of my cereal bowl on the wall, took photo.

Licorice Ferns

Clinging to the trunk of a Big Leaf Maple near McLane Creek in West Olympia.

Western Colors

View north from Olympia over Puget Sound as the summer sun sets behind the Olympic Mountains.

Watching the Sun Rise

She's either enjoying the sunrise, or trying to tell me to clean the windows. But I love how the golden early light outlines her and the window frame.

Sometimes you just get lucky

Bumbershoot 2009 - The Canada-based Indo-Celtic group Delhi 2 Dublin is on stage and the crowd is bouncing with wild abandon. Tabla player and electronics guru Tarun jumps off the stage, bounces up onto the security wall where he sings for a bit, then leaps into the seething mass.
They caught him. And I did too, holding my camera above my head and hoping it was aimed in the right direction. Sometimes, you just get lucky.

Eartip

some of Autumn's bounty...

Tug Twilight

A mirror-like Budd Inlet reflects the Wallace Foss, one of many tugboats gathered in Olympia for the annual Harbor Days festival.

Source of Red Tide?

Water tower in Roy, Washington -- selective color, dramatic clouds