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Happy Smiling Party Girls (HSCF 30/52)

This is my paparazzi shot of the scene outside the club . . . er, children's museum . . . on the way to the after-party . . er, nap. These three closed down the house at Elena's 4th birthday. Wonderful time was had by all. I just hope I can repeat a shot like this 12 years hence at the sweet 16.

And by repeat, I mean (among other things) repeat the complete absence of malt liquor and gang signs.

Uploaded on Dec 18, 2009

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Stand Strong

Has anyone noticed a lot of "disillusionment" going around? Tis the season, I suppose - a little extra darkness, it's cold, there's the stress of the holidays, people are getting sick, and everyone is cramming to get all the work and school done before the end of the year. Trust me, I've felt it myself.

Maybe a lighthouse might help out a little. Something of a stalwart, standing strong through all kinds of weather and seasons, shining a little beacon to passers by. Er, at least that's my excuse for posting this shot at this moment. It was taken last week when I briefly snuck out of work on what was otherwise an overwhelming week. Maybe I'll try to bring in a little holiday cheer tomorrow for Bokeh Wednesday by posting some treelight bokeh and annoying a good friend.

Uploaded on Dec 15, 2009

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Little Star (HSCF 29/52)

Something special for Happy Smiling Child Friday. Elena's 4th birthday is Sunday, so I thought I'd do a brief retrospective of the last four beautiful years.

Note the music: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" is Elena's favorite song . . I've been singing it to her nearly every night for the last 2 years. This instrumental rendition is by Jim Brickman. Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Uploaded on Dec 11, 2009

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About A Third

A little compositional experiment here - I decided to compose specifically to allocate 1/3rd of the frame to each the foreground, the water, and the sky. Hopefully it works . . . any constructive critique or composition opinions welcome on this one!

As far as the colors, I've really gotten to like how cheap cokin filters impart that purplish cast on long exposures, so that's all captured in-camera. Most of the rest just came from a contrast adjustment. With most of the sunsets like this that I take, it's mainly a case of increasing the contrast a lot (which gives all the pretty colors) and then lightening and dodging enough on the foreground that you can still make out the rocks.

Update (for Seattlites interested in location): this was taken from one of my standard spots (you'll find it a lot in my stream). I'm a West Seattle-ite, so 5 minutes down the hill from my house on the West side is Beach Drive - which runs from Ritchey Viewpoint Park (just south of Alki Lighthouse) to Me-Kwa-Mooks Park (about two miles). Any time the tide is below 6 feet, the rocks are accessible. There are about 3 stretches of 50 meters or so along Beach Drive that are great to shoot from.

Uploaded on Dec 8, 2009

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Push Alderman off the Pier

Shot from Luther Burbank Park on Mercer Island a few weeks ago with Doug. We just caught the last of the fog rising off the lake and passing through the distant hills of Bellevue . . a little too late, otherwise this might have been a little cooler minimalistic shot - but I'll take what I can get.

See if you can find Alderman in the water

Thanks to Clay for helping address my titling deficiency

Uploaded on Dec 7, 2009

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